Blog 6/7/15

Hello everyone, I'm going to be writing this blog about the Journal prompt that asks the question about how people today communicate throughout the world, and how this impacts social changes.  I am also going to slightly alter this question by comparing it to how individuals communicated throughout the course of history that we studied this year, and how the people in the past were able to impact social change.

I believe that today because of the internet and all of the available ways to communicate through use of the internet, such as chat rooms that take place in multiple countries, it is currently much easier to communicate with other people than it was in the past.  There do exist many different social changes as well, and different ways to make these changes.  I believe that social changes occur much more often they did, that social changes are always present, not necessarily that everything is always changing, but that these changes are always being encouraged  even if they are for a bad reason.

We can look at the results of 9/11 as a social change.  The events of September 11th 2001 were in themselves catastrophic and terrifying, and in the aftermath the social changes that ensued were the discrimination of Muslims/middle eastern.   This was actually greatly increased by the fact that these different discriminatory ways were able to spread so easily via the technology of that time.  Even though the technology of that time was not as advanced as the technology that we witness today, but the technology of that time was sufficient enough that it could spread the event and the discriminatory views across the nation and across the world.  

Today, there exists much more advanced technology, and many more medians that may be utilized to transport these views.  I think that because of these different means of communication and because there is so much media open to so many people, these views will spread and become more common and accepted much faster than they would have become before.

This is much different than in our nations history with groups such as the Native-Americans, and the African-Americans.  These groups in order to create a social change for their acceptance were forced to go through great lengths in order to communicate their messages.  Don't get me wrong, I believe that the Muslims did also have to go through a great amount of difficulty before they could achieve their acceptance and rid the discrimination against them, but I believe that it could have been slightly easier than the events that were required for the Muslims to be accepted.