Population (Sumblog 10)

This past week in class we talked about population and how a certain population either increases or decreases depending on the births and deaths in that certain country. I really liked the real time birth and deaths visual that we tried to look at but could not. I looked at it on d2L and it is a very cool tool to see how certain areas compare to the United States of America. I thought it was interesting that there were so many more births and deaths in Asia and Africa compared to the United States and Europe. I also thought it was interesting that in the 5 minutes that I watched the map, there were over 1,000 births compared to about 400 deaths. This surprised me, for some reason I thought these numbers would be more even or closer than what they were.

Also in class we talked about how China is slowly getting more lenient on their policy of one child per family and usually it is the male that they keep. I still thought that it was very strict about the one child per family thing today but I was glad to see that the Chinese government is allowing the people of China to have more than one child. Especially for the reason of the abundance of abortion in China over the past 20-30 years. I think it is good they are letting families that live in rural farm areas to have more than one children to help work on the farm. I also was surprised to hear that you can send in an application to have more than one child. Now that these new rules in place I can see China's population drastically increasing. In the past, with the one child law still fully in effect, China's population is ginormous. Now with the laws changing and people are having more than one child, the population is going to increase to numbers that might not be suitable for the space and resources China has.

This is a great video explaining the ease of the one child policy in China.

Americanization Throughout the World (Sumblob 9)

It could be said that the world is becoming Americanized. I think that this statement could be true in the sense that a lot of countries not only eat American food, speak the American language, but mainly they strive to be free like us Americans are. I know this is not the case with every country but the countries that are not free, all want freedom that we have. It can be said that those countries want to be more like America. Hell, why wouldn't you want to be like us. We have the freedom to do almost anything we want, say anything we want, and be whoever we want. Who wouldn't want that for themselves, there family and their country? The answer to that is nobody.

However, I think that another big thing about being "Americanized" is the fact that America has so many different cultures and diversity in it. Ancestors from everywhere came here to settle. For example my German ancestors came to Wisconsin to settle and that is why I am here (although I was born in Michigan). I think that along with freedom, other countries want the diversity that we have. It lets us experience other cultures in our own backyard. It is crazy to think how many diverse cultures there are in the United States but I think its pretty cool that we have so many.

I would love to visit a similar country like the United Kingdom and see how diverse their country is as well. I don't think any country is as diverse as our country but I would assume that the European countries are very similar to the United States overall.

In our society today everyone is striving for diversity and what not. I think that America is the number one role model for this in terms of other countries that are "Americanizing" (if that is even a word). I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world besides the great nation of the United States of America.

This is a great photo that shows the Americanization of the world. If you look close you can see the logos and signs of very popular items that you can literally find in almost any country on earth. Just more proof that the world is slowly "Americanizing".

Anonymous (Sumblog 8)

This past week in class we watched a very interesting video about Wikileaks and Anonymous. I had heard of Wikileaks through the news when it was going down but I had never heard of Anonymous before. The video was very interesting, I had no idea that the people from Anonymous had done, or even could do all of those things through computer hacking. Isn't computer hacking illegal? How have these guys not been caught?

We talked about how Anonymous is a movement but I think it is a very weak attempt. I think it is just a bunch of spoiled computer nerds that get off over messing with people's lives. I also think they are very hypocritical in the fact that they went after Scientology just how Scientology was going after people who disagreed with them. The Scientology members would follow people and try to make their lives miserable and that is exactly what Anonymous did to Scientology members. In no way do I support Scientology, in fact I am strongly against it but I am using them to make a point at how hypocritical the people of Anonymous are.

I also think that the people of Anonymous are cowards. Anyone who has to wear a mask like that might think they are just keeping themselves out of trouble but it makes them look very cowardly and weak. If you have to wear a mask to hide your identity so you don't get in trouble than you probably shouldn't be doing that thing (computer hacking) in the first place. I found the people from Anonymous to be very cocky and annoying and I in no way support their weak attempt at a "movement".

This video tries to explain the cyber attacks on Israel websites by anonymous. I think it should be taken as an attack and not just a protest. It is cyber terrorism in my eyes.