February 5, 2014

Today was the second day of CAHSEE testing. Today Ivan, our DOD, sent around a list so people could sign up for the jobs they wanted.
At 1:08, we started "going over vocabulary." (Moira Camacho) We soon realized the nationalism and racism have a very strong link to each other and to genocide. Nationalism can lead to racism if you begin believing your race is superior to another race. Then, that belief can fuel the desire to wipe out the other, less superior, races. That's what brought Hitler to his decision to get rid of all the Jews in Germany. However, and this was a bit of a shock to me, "Niche inspired Hitler." (Kent Hirano) Hitler didn't come up with the concept on his own, he used an idea someone else had already had.
To go with what we were learning about Social Darwinism, Kurtis was sent out to find bugs. He later returned with "1 spider, 1 ant." (Elisabeth Gomez)
At 1:30, we learned that Italy is trying to split up because Northerners believe that Southern Italians are lazy and sit around doing nothing but eating three hour meals all day.
At 1:40, we went over nationalistic speeches, specifically the one Mr. P. had given us, and talked about waht made it nationalistic.
At 1:54, we went over the types of languages in Europe, including Romance, Slavic, Germanic, and Celtic. English is a Germanic language.

-I