Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts
Showing posts with label germany. Show all posts

Saturday, 30 July 2016

What is Race Superiority?

We won't all agree on the definition, but this is what I find important when a race claims to be better than another. Race, for this definition, will encompass culture as well.

1. A race cannot bring another race down to support its claim of superiority
 To use another race to boost your race is to prove weakness. A race that need the support of other races is not superior, but exploiting the strengths of one race in order to appear better. American whites have the same burden to blacks as German whites have to Jews. I know there probably aren't that many Jews living in Germany anymore, but the idea of reparations is cute and beautiful but it's not going to happen. We're not the society we were then. We're not the people that our ancestors were. But years have passed since the American chattel slavery, and society has shifted quite a bit since then. Black people now have complete equality, it's up to them to choose to live as a victim of the past or as an individual who has perfect agency and who will prove to the 'white man' that she can be as culturally savvy, controlled, intellectual and in love with the freedom she has in the West.

Monday, 11 July 2016

The Role of Women in Nazi Germany

"Women were not expected to wear make-up or trousers. The dyeing of hair was not allowed nor were perms. Only flat shoes were expected to be worn. Women were discouraged from slimming as this was considered bad for child birth. Women were encouraged to have a well built figure as slim women, so it was taught, would have problems in pregnancy…….Women were also discouraged from smoking – not because it was linked to problems with pregnancies – but because it was considered non-German to do so." 

C N Trueman "The Role of Women in Nazi Germany"
historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 9 Mar 2015. 7 Jul 2016.