ch 21

Chapter 21 was all about the down hills that many countries face throughout history. Such as wars, depression and groups of people wanting to overthrow one culture. However it’s very wild just thinking about how many humans were killed and how some families were destroy during these events.  Reading about the wars that had happened such as World War I and World War II are both breath taken issues. Do to the fact that many of the humans who fought in those wars started at age 14 or even younger. This is a very crazy thought because today most parents would never let their 14 year old child experience such a terrible situation. 14 year old humans are very young they do not even know how to go about some situations just thinking that back in the day they fought at that age is awful. Also it’s very sad how we were all fighting against each other to make a country change its views and what not. I cannot even fathom  how these men could just go and bomb these other countries knowing that they were killing not only thousands of humans but also young children and babies. On the other hand yes we face very sad situations as a country but today most of the world is welling to help each other out, I feel like today we have small wars going on that are similar to the pass wars that the United States has face. We the citizens do not hear or pay much attention to them because we are so cutup with our own lives. When we should be paying very much attention to these issue. They might not affect our live but the lives of the upcoming generations which would be our children.

CH20

Throughout the reading I found myself getting very disappointed with that fact that numerous cultures and home lands of native people were destroy. Many European colonial empires did not only take over the lands throughout the world but they also made humans as in Africans suffer so much pain, Killing raping doing whatever they pleased with these humans. I have always wondered since I was very young why did these humans have to go through this horrible life? Most people believe because things happened for a reason. These humans had to face this awful life for what?, because till this day we still see a lot of racism. We still see groups of colored people living in the bad neighborhood and groups of whit healthy people living in a great nice looking neighborhood.  I bring this up because in the book they mention how they started to separate each other by colored. I guess one can say that maybe we can learn something from this issue which is to be strong and hope for change. At the same time I really believe that if Colonial Empires never happened then we humans would not see each other more superior then other ethnicities.  I strongly agree that the colonial empires are way we think that we might be better than other cultures and ethnicities.  As for example when the men in the book in page 589 says that they did not want to teach the Africans English because of danger.  They did not want them to try and empower them the British men were afraid of them being smart as they were.  

Collapse

Though Collapse was a very long reading assignment it was extremely remarkable. I went in reading the book with a whatever kind of attitude just doing the reading because we have to. Once I was done with the reading I learned numerous issues that are continuously getting worst in our world.  Also the reading got me really questioning about how we go about things such as our life styles, how we think about other humans that are not citizens coming into our homelands for a better living. The main question that I would ask if I was a teacher to a group of students is what have we done to this beautiful world?  The author of Collapse in the reading speaks about like 12 big problems that are happening today on our earth at this moment. The one topic that grabbed my attention was when he spoke about immigration.  The immigration subject has been around for countless years now, we always hear people speaking about how they don’t really belong in the United states. On the other hand we have a group of people saying how they just want to make a better living. As we all know Los Angles is one of the cities in California that has a great number of immigrants.  Also many citizens might think that LA is so impacted do to the fact that there are so many immigrants living there. We citizens don’t really think outside the box at times. We are blaming harmless humans the immigrants for crowding up a city. We are also blaming them for taking over our jobs.  When really the jobs that this humans are doing is not a job that one single citizen would want to do. I personally do not know any citizen that would go out and pick fruits and other types of foods out in the fields for a really low rate of pay.  I really just breaks my heart nowing that their is so many humans that come to our lands for a better living and there are so many citizens that are so rude to them. Making them go back home having to leave their children with other families so that they have a great futher better then their parents. The point is that we should not blame other for crowding up our cities because it’s really us citizens that are crowding up LA. Los Angles is so pack because that is one of the cities in the United States that is known to make some humans dreams come true. Numerous young adults want to  live in La for the reason that of college, fame, night live, and media so if we think about it immigrants might have a little to do with the impact but It’s really not hurting any of us. If we want this world to be a better place and if we want all these issues to go away we the people need to learn how to respect and love each other. Once we all start working together we can start seeing change in the issues that might destroy our world soon.