Showing posts with label understanding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label understanding. Show all posts

Monday, July 2, 2018

Eleven Nations of the USA



Ever wonder where the differences between regions separate based on culture, philosophy, and principals in the United States/North America?


Sunday, April 15, 2018

15 Dumb Advice Unsuccessful People Give You

Alux - 15 Dumb Advice Unsuccessful People Give You



The Advice I hate the most is, "Everything Happens for a Reason." When people say this they assume the reason was for a good reason, or that "God" did something in their life to teach them something. As if there aren't bad reasons for why something can happen. Or as if there isn't other people, circumstances, and history that can be the cause of what is happening. There are many reasons why something is happening some because of our own choices other because of outside forces and most, because of a combination of both.

Saturday, January 21, 2017

African civilizations

There are people that truly believe there are no ruins on the whole of the continent of Africa. These people actually believe that no African culture or civilization has ever been other than Egypt. I have actually met these people in person. Some have negative views of Africans, some are just ignorant. So while doing research for my fantasy story, Myth of the King. I have come across some information and pictures. So I thought I would share some here.

South Africa

The Aban

Benin City

Kumasi capital of Ashanti

Ghana
Kilwa ruins

Mauritania

aksum lion spouts

Map of Medieval African Civilizations




What he says about Disney movies having human characters on every continent but in Africa only animals, I never thought of. Ask yourself why?


BBC special Kingdoms of West Africa.

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Jane Elliott Exercise




This is the Blue Eye/Brown Eye test done in the United States of America but I'm not sure when. I think it was in the early 2000s.

For those of you that don't know what the Blue Eye/Brown Eye test is. Jane Elliot takes a group of people. She separates them by blue eyes and brown eyes. She tell the brown eyes to treat the blue eyes as the lesser. The point of this test is to teach the white members of the group how a living in a Racist/discriminating systems feels but also to show the brown eyes why people in such a group don't either know or want to give up the privilege of being in the more powerful group.




You can watch another video here.


This is the same experiment done in the UK. However it doesn't go as well. Most of the white participants refuse to take part in the experiment. However it does show their deep denial of racism. I believe this took place in 2009.




This is the same experiment done in Australia. It's not the full video but it gives you enough to understand the test.


Monday, June 20, 2016

MAPS

This info graph gives an idea of what the true size of Africa is.
This video explain a lot about maps and how we use and see them.

Friday, October 9, 2015

Saturday, June 27, 2015

First People: Africa



First People: Africa is a PBS special about the African origins of HUMANKIND. The show talks about how scientists use fossil evidence and genetics to trace back Modern Humans ancestry. They also learn that early mankind mated and had children with the other Human species. The product is, us. People today are hybrids with a small percentage of one or more different species of human in our DNA.