Social 20-1 Source Analysis
Source 20-1 Source Analysis
Harmanan Dhamija
Source A is a quote illustrating the concept of ultra-nationalism. This is extreme devotion to or advocacy of the interests of a nation, especially regardless of the effect on any other nations. This is proven when the author states “the English are best at everything”. From this it can be presumed that the author clearly favors ideas like Ethnocentrism, Imperialism, Inequality and Hierarchy. The author says “After all, we’re not savages”, this relates back to the time of the second round of globalization when Christopher Columbus traveled to North America and started the Grand Exchange in the year 1492. The term is used to describe the enormous widespread exchange of agricultural goods and communicable diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. This led to the contact of the Europeans and the First Nations people. At that time the Europeans were very imperialistic and their goal was to extend the rule of their nation over foreign countries. They also believed that their group and culture was superior to the groups already present in the New World. This eventually led to the Europeans calling the First Nations peoples savages, articulating their hate and sense of dominance over them. Another example that relates to this quote is Adolf Hitler, he believed in the Aryan race or in his mind the “master race”. According to him the Aryan’s were people with blue eyes, blond hair and not pale skin, it is tanned skin from Caucasian race, also a German speaker and could not be Jewish or marry a Jew. Hitler believed that this part of the Caucasian race was superior to the rest of the world even though he himself was not blond haired and blue eyed. He went through tremendous amounts of effort with his Nazi Party to eliminate many people like the Jews; his work spread a lack of equal treatment throughout the world. Source A connects to nationalism because the source depicts that the Europeans (English) had a
Harmanan Dhamija
Source A is a quote illustrating the concept of ultra-nationalism. This is extreme devotion to or advocacy of the interests of a nation, especially regardless of the effect on any other nations. This is proven when the author states “the English are best at everything”. From this it can be presumed that the author clearly favors ideas like Ethnocentrism, Imperialism, Inequality and Hierarchy. The author says “After all, we’re not savages”, this relates back to the time of the second round of globalization when Christopher Columbus traveled to North America and started the Grand Exchange in the year 1492. The term is used to describe the enormous widespread exchange of agricultural goods and communicable diseases between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. This led to the contact of the Europeans and the First Nations people. At that time the Europeans were very imperialistic and their goal was to extend the rule of their nation over foreign countries. They also believed that their group and culture was superior to the groups already present in the New World. This eventually led to the Europeans calling the First Nations peoples savages, articulating their hate and sense of dominance over them. Another example that relates to this quote is Adolf Hitler, he believed in the Aryan race or in his mind the “master race”. According to him the Aryan’s were people with blue eyes, blond hair and not pale skin, it is tanned skin from Caucasian race, also a German speaker and could not be Jewish or marry a Jew. Hitler believed that this part of the Caucasian race was superior to the rest of the world even though he himself was not blond haired and blue eyed. He went through tremendous amounts of effort with his Nazi Party to eliminate many people like the Jews; his work spread a lack of equal treatment throughout the world. Source A connects to nationalism because the source depicts that the Europeans (English) had a