In World History, we learned about many cultures and their similarities and differences to our culture. This is very important in today's world to ensure peace and respect between different people's way of life and beliefs. Before this year, I don't remember learning about North Africa, so when assigned the project of the Libyan Revolution, I was intrigued to understand more about their culture. This project focused on the ten steps of a revolution and when shown presentations from many countries by our classmates, we had a better understanding of life in other areas of the world and what struggles they go through.
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I chose this powerpoint, created by myself and my group, to represent how I learned about another culture. I didn't know anything about Libya prior to this project, and after, I understood the tension in the country, the government, and what the people wanted for their lives. This project was especially beneficial to understand modern cultures around the world. First, we created a list of the steps found in every revolution, after studying the French and Russian revolutions. Here, we compared events found in places separated and entirely different, but following the same path. This was interesting for me to see the connection between these vastly different cultures. After spending a lot of time out of the classroom understanding what occurred during this time in Libya, I grew to understand this different culture and appreciate its dissimilarities from our society.
As I learned in my English class, only hearing or seeing a single story about a culture, is damaging creating ignorant people who do not appreciate other parts of the world. One of the main goals common through projects this year in history was to find and display multiple perspectives about a subject. This is important when it comes to understanding cultures too. Even seeing the Holocaust from the Nazi's point of view will help you better understand a time or culture. This Libyan revolution project is an example of a culture that I learned about, but this appreciation of a single culture goes against the idea of searching for many stories. A goal for the rest of my life is to never be close minded when learning about other cultures because ignorance created from that action is dangerous to the world.