Bolg #8

These are definitely interesting chapters to read.  Wars? I am not sure if it’s necessary however,  I guess things between countries needed to be settled in some ways sadly it had to be war. World War II about Pearl Harbor was a tremendous loss for the Unites States.  How could Japanese be so sneaky to attack the United States in such a way that they were not able to fight back right away? I don’t blame the United States for dropping the atomic bomb to retaliate. Many innocent people got killed, injured and crippled for decades during that war. For people who witnessed the war they are scared for life. I know a person who witnessed Japanese attacked Hong Kong to this day he told me that he hates Japanese. I was shocked to hear that I thought that in today’s society, a New Era, The Modern world people learn to forget the pass and to forgive.  In fact, when I asked him why?  He said that he could never forget what he saw; the Japanese were raping women, killing the innocent on the street.  What more depressing than the war was the Great Depression in the late 1920’s to 1930’s. It was cause by World War I; Strayer mentioned that “Never had the instabilities of capitalism been so evident or so devastating as during the decade that followed the outbreak of the Great Depression in 1929. The American stock market crashed, Wall Street financiers committed suicide, investment dried up, people lost their life’s saving, bank closed there were no jobs (page633),”  The country’s poverty increased all and all in was a very devastating period of time.  I can’t even imagine the chaos if we were in such deep depression like it was then. Back in 2008 we were in depression, but at least there were still jobs, majority of factories were still open, and businesses were operating normally.

According to Strayer; the root of communism came from Karl Marx; the idea was to end poverty and to bring peace to the world.  Communist countries give no rights to human; they control education, as to what could be taught in school; they control economy, policies and media, such as what could or could not be shown and said to the media. For example; in China, when the country was building the dam for the Yangzse River, the government just gave their people a deadline to move and the people have no-say-so. I was glad that there was a feminist movement that they were pushing for the women’s rights as Stayer had mentioned that new communist regimes were efforts at liberating and mobilizing the women by organizing multiple meetings such as to train them to operate a day-care center, medical clinics, published newspapers and magazines that target at female readers, they gave education and prenatal classes and encouraged Muslim women to take off their veils. All that I thought it was great that women have a movement to stand-up for themselves unfortunately, that didn’t last long.

Industrial Globalization sounds like a good term that would help strengthen the world’s economy.  On the other hand, it weakened the United States’ job market. It had caused unemployment rate to increase in the U.S. since the United States decided to have thing make overseas; such as machines, electronic parts, clothing etc. Most recently the solar panels that are made in China are half the price at the ones made in the U.S. that accounts for many layoffs in the solar panel factories and possibly closing of the factory. While company owners are benefiting from making a huge profit by having things made overseas, it’s devastating the U.S. job market.