Thursday, October 16, 2008

nationalism and the creation of italy

nationalism is defined as a practice of taking pride in your own country, but many people in this country cant take part in that since everyone is here is very paranoid and pretenious. even people who live and had familes here for more than a generation are paranoid and very insecure, because many dont want to lose their traditions and values to other foriginers who come and settle down here. However in the austro-hungrian empire, that was not the case. The countries with in that huge empire wanted their own tradition's and values. To let them have their own sense of nationalism.
Nationalism its self very vauge and not really a practice, more like a way of life. Nationilist's in this country might define themselves through sports, foods or even religion. However, just as every country has forigners. they also come with their own tradtion's and values and when those two collide, you have cultural diffusion. In that sense, it is also twice to keep a natinalistic sense of pride in a country such as ours.
The case with itally and the other countries that wanted to succed from the ottoman empire is that they did not olny want to have their cultures, tradition's and values. But their own country. This created commotion and eventually they broke apart and each own group formed a country. This includes itally , germany, austria, prussia...etc. But eventually their plan did work and these countries did make their own values and tradition's. they also began to grew on their own like independent nation's.

Friday, October 10, 2008

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Shortly after the the french revolution, many got the same idea that they could succeed with their motherlands. This gave ideas to many other nations such as what we did in the late 1700's with our own revolution. But before that Simon bolivar was a revolution as well in his country. since he wanted independence from pain, he thought he should set up something up and in time created a huge revolution that sill affect's Latin America till today.
Bolivar had traveled through Europe and the United States, while he traveled through the United States, he really liked the way how the US had fought for their freedom and gained it through the hardships, but in the end had become a good democratic country. Bolivar liked the idea so much that he planned on getting his country, Venezuela, its own freedom from Spain.
Simon Bolivar had not only helped his country achieve freedom but rather he had helped all of South America be their own independent country and gain them freedom from Spain. For that reason Bolivar is extremely respected in South America. He had helped many of the countries of South America today to gain their freedom from the country and or nation they were bound to.