Chapter 23

This section is very interesting because it talks about how we humans are populating the world raptly. Now is this a bad thing or a good thing. We are also destroying the world natural resources in the ding this but we cannot say no to medical help to other people. The global industries for goods has also grown because so many people are populating the globe. This is good for companies but not good for mother earth just in the use of toilet paper for one human is a lot. The pollution of mother earth is still a big issue air quality in China is a great issue because big companies go to China to pollute it because they do not have any law against the environmental pollution. Unlike the USA which has the EPA and other people who will protect the environment until they can for ever. By looking at one of the maps I can tell that the Industrialized countries leave a bigger footprint of the world than thrid world countries we need to fix this. My dream is of a polluted free world.     

Chapter 23

In this chapter my favorite section was on Che Guevara because in third world countries he is a hero. Even though the book refers to him as a failed revolutionary. Ernesto "Che" Guevara is a great symbol especially in Latin America because in those countries people are born into wealthy families. But most people are born in poverty and in these countries it does not matter how hard people work they cannot move up the latter, one education is not available for anyone only the elite have the opportunity to attend universities. Che was against the elite class he wanted an equal world for the Latin Americans, but the USA saw him as a threat. The reason was that Che was a communist based ideology and the USA hates communist. But it would of been great if Che did not believe in communism then a true revolutionary would of been born from him a successful one. In Latin America their needs to be a revolution, but the persons that actually wants to speak out only think about communistic revolutions. They see that the imperialistic nations need to keep them down, so the products can be cheap. Latin America needs a democratic revolution to overthrow all the dictating governments that exist and will keep to exist.      

Chapter 22

The African National Congress picture is very interesting it shows the struggle that the people of South Africa. The second picture one on Vietnam kicking out the American army. The documents of the past is interesting because the idea of a secular Islamic religion has been thought about for years and here I thought it was a recent movement. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was one of these people with the innovation of a secular Islam in 1927. This was interesting because countries that are heavenly Islamic are behind in industrialization. If Ataturk would of keep going he would of changed the position of the Islamic countries. Ayatollah Khomeini is a very interesting politician because he made it seem like the country was moving toward a democratic republic. But when he says based on an Islamic rule is when he looses me. If the democratic republic is to work it need to be secular. This is why the European nations do not want Turkey to have the Euro currency.The most interesting document of reading is "From Islam to America" because it shows the oppression that some women suffer under Islamic rule, which were made up by men to dominate women. This oppression is what makes the Islamic religion look bad, but in reality it does not happen everywhere. And people should understand that. 

Chapter 22

I really wanted to blog about the articles of the past the Russian side of communism maybe in the next life. I have to recognize Nelson Mandela because he fought for a free South Africa. I wish I had the courage that this man had maybe half of it and I would of gone protesting for occupied Oakland. Gandhi was also an incredible man because he inspired so many movements even the Civil Rights movement in the USA. I like the end of the empire section of the book, but the USA came into power after the Empire of Britain fell. I like how the American Revolution inspired the Mexican Revolution, which in my point of view they still need another one. Mexicans need to over-through the current government and establish a new one.
The empires that ended as well in were Germany and Japan after WWII. I feel that more people should read about Abdul Ghaffar Khan; he was a Muslim pacifist because a lot of people think that all Muslims are terrorist. The map on page 1106 is still accurate today, at least the part of Mexico it is still an authoritarian government. The only country that does not have an authoritarian government is Belize I did not know that.   .      

Hitlers interesting political view

I found this reading extremely interesting because this publication shows that Hitlers was not a dumb man. He was intelligent and did not just pull facts out of the sky. The other fascinating thing is that Hitler was in prison when he wrote this political view. The first section talked about the superior race this concepts comes from Darwin's theory of natural selection. This is why Hitler states that the strong should hang out with the strong and the weak should parish. For this point of view I blame the British because in the past chapter they had an evolution chart that showed how the white race is the superior race. The interesting part of this memo is that Hitler was not well informed about the Jews I would of recommended a book on religious culture or religious tolerance. The religion of Judaism has its culture, but I wonder why Hitlers has so much anger toward the Jewish religion. He also blames the defeat of Germany in WWI because of the race problem. He calls this superior race Aryans I wonder who was the original creator of this name. I found out today that Hitler was a very educated person and he felt that Germany was being oppressed because they are a superior race. I wonder if this publication made Hitler popular and thus he came into power. I also wonder how did Germany get the money to buy all of its military equipment. The last sentence in this peace shows how even Hitler felt dominated by the rest of the European country because he states, "Never forget that the most sacred right on this earth is a man's right to have earth to till with his own hands, and the most sacred sacrifice the blood that a man sheds for this earth" (Strayer, 1021).       

Documents from the past

This reading mad me mad because it shows the realistic belief that Europeans had on other people that if they are not white they are inferior. I read "The Indian Rebellion" this was a sad thing that the British were doing to the Indians. The sadists part is that we as a Western culture are still doing this in millions of sweat shops they have people working for hours with no breaks, low wages, child labor, and no proper ventilation. This is when the US turns the other cheek and refuses to attack those issues. One of the things that the British did to the Indians was impose great taxes to the people who live there. It is like you have lived there for years and all of the sudden someone from another place comes and says you have to pay tax. The British also monopolized the merchant trade in India which was bad because they started to depend on foreign goods. I always wonder what will happen if China pulls out all the merchandize that we in the US buy that will be a day to remember. In this reading it also says that the British have servants, but was there no servants in India before this. The other thing that he mentions is the low wages that government officials had at the time. The British came an really enslaved the Indians, but we are no better or maybe worse. 

Colonial Encounters in Asia and Africa

This reading was extremely interesting because at the time England was in power. In our current time the United States of America is in power. In page 882 there is a picture of England as an octopus reaching out to the other countries and coming into control of other countries. In page 883 the British have pictures of all the races. They first have a monkey then two African males, Native Americans, Asian, and finally White males. All the pictures exempt for the the white male look like savages the white male looks intelligent and civilized while the rest look horrible. I also cannot believe that Asia was under European power why did they not fight the Europeans. Even the United States at the time had a territory because of the Spanish American war. Japan was also coming into power they toke over Korea and Taiwan. India was a territory of Great Britain and so was Burma. This is why people from third world countries do not like the Europeans and today the whole world hates Americans. Africa had the worst deal in this chapter because they colonized by all these other countries, but they still have countries today that are starving.