Tuesday, March 25, 2014
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).
Sunday, March 16, 2014
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.
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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.
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