Even further into history, now its the mid-1900s and there it is WW2 between Germany and the other European countries and the US. The reason for this war? It has to do with nationalism ( nationalism is basically “pride” to ones country) Germany was mad because all the other nations weakened its government and basically humiliated the Germans. This motivated Hitler to come to the decision to statrt a war to show the othernations that the Germans were stronger than all the other nations combined. He also tried to exterminate the Jewish people for having different beliefs (I also will not go into too much depth with that.) In the psycology book it stated that motivation, in general term for the process of starting,directing, and maintaining physical and phsycological activities. It is a broad concept that embraces all the internal mechanisms involved in: preferences for one activity over another, vigor of responses and persistence of organized patterns of actions toward a relevant goal. Basically Hitler had a bad responce from the other Europeans like a child being humiliated by his peers, which made his goal to show others what he is capable of doing. Or should I say what Germany is capable of doing.
The last example that I would like to introduce is racism. We have all seen what it can do, and worst of all it is still present today. One of the reasons why is because the lines created on the map makes seems to be the reason that makes us all different, but in reality we all have the same number of legs, same number of arms, mouth, eyes. (depending if you have a birth defect or something that makes you “unique”) Thats only one of the reasons. The other reason is the media. The media, as I quote from the book “Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig “ How Big media uses technology and the law to lockdown culture and control creativity.” Where do sterotypes come from? The media. Not only today, but back in the old days the media portrayed other races poorly. (not to sound racist) but have you ever seen the slave trade posters? That is being steriotypical. In present day there are still stereotypes. If we all join together and think of ourselves as earthlings and not as Asians, or as African- Americans, things would be so much better.
My view of a unified world would have to be that we all work together to explore and engrave our names in the stars and that there would be no racism, or wars. It would also be helpful if we had a vernacular or a mother language, that way we wouldn't have problems communicating with each other. I think that also applies to racism, mabey since we speak a different language it makes us feel like we are different than others who speak other languages.
Basically a unified world is a world in which we have overcome all the human needs: hunger, sickness, poverty, expansion, freedom and the one needed most, acceptance. Acceptance for who we are, and not what we look like or what language we speak. Feeling a sense of fairness and balance in interacting with others. Having a good relationship with others. You've probably seen today's world... the world needs to have more of these needs.
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