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Jul 6, 1100
Ideology
First Crusade begins. July 6, 1095
Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade for the Holy Land in the name of Christendom. -
Looking Glass Self
United States forms. July 4, 1776
The United States becomes independent from Britain with all the best intentions, seeing itself as the heroic rebel, seeking liberation, when in fact the "Founding Fathers" were nothing more than terrorists harrassing the Motherland -
Self Reliance
American Revolution July 4, 1776
Americans break away from Great Britain, forming their own country. -
Equality
Russian Revolution
Soviet Union forms, granting equality for all. -
White Collar Crime
Ponzi Scheme.
Charles Ponzi hit upon an scheme focusing on robbing Peter to pay Paul, making millions. -
Socialization
Student Goverment
Hitler starts the Hitler Youth organization, brainwashing young kids to be good little Nazis -
5 Basic Needs
Holocaust (Which, according to the Middle East, never happened)
In the Nazi concentration camps, the prisoners were deprived of their five basic needs and soon died -
Social Isolation
Soviet Union shoots down U.S. spy plane.
Because of their desire to be left in peace, one might say, to be isolated, the Soviet Union shot down a spy plane that the nosy U.S. sent to harass them. -
Scapegoat
Cold War
During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union both used each other as scapegoats to hide their problem's from their own citizens. -
Suicide
Soviet Union dissolves.
On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev graciously stepped down as president of the USSR, declaring the office extinct and ceding all the powers still vested in it to the president of Russia: Yeltsin -
Factors affecting social inequality
Inequality
Certain men are not equal with their fellow man, and it has been this way since the beginning of time. To change this fact is to change what makes mankind, mankind. So in all things men must not be equal, for if they are, we will cease. Socialism = EPIC FAIL -
Patriotism
Twin Tower attacks
After the Twin Tower attacks, all of America rallied around her beautiful flag, calling for the utter destruction of the Saracen filth that killed our people. -
Stereotypes
Communists
I was in my Econ class, and I started talking about Equality for all, and Food for everyone, and Homes for everyone, and hammers and sickles, and all of a sudden I was stereotyped as a communist. -
Control Theory
Dakota Ridge High School
Dakota Ridge is convinced that the only way to kep their students in line without using corporal punishment is to watch their students and control their every movement. -
Deviance and Capitalism
Survival of the Fittest
Capitalism is the economic application of social darwinism; therefore it rocks; therefore deviance does not exist in capitalist societies. -
Taboo
Massive orgy.
When the world ends on December 21, 2012 there will be a massive orgy commemorating the end of days -
Assimilation
The Borg Collective
We are the Borg. We will assimiliate you. Resistance is futile.