What I have learned...

One of thethings that I have learned in Mr. Fielder's class is that Rwanda was ruled by Belgium, and Belgium gave out name cards, which started a lot of the killing. Before Belgium was Germany, who gave up Rwanda because of the need for money to support them in war. Belgium also put the Hutus in power over the Tutsi causing much tension between the two groups.
I also learned how to write questions that can start a good debate. For instance in the story The Kaffir Boy I wrote a question that goes like this, “What would you do if someone from another race that is dominant over yours called you a discriminating racial name.” This question can be answered by saying You would call him something else or start some conflict, another way is to say that you would turn the other cheek or not do anything.
I also learned how the Aboriginal culture was treated from the movie The Power of One. The Aborigines were sent to different settlements occupied by whites, and were forced to change their culture into the white’s. The only true Aborigines left today are dying and even though some of the people might be Aborigines they don’t keep the culture with them, instead they have modernized and gone to work in the city.
Even though this may sound easy, but I learned how to find a credible source online. I found out that most sights can be edited, and some news websites can be bias, and lie to cover different stories up. I also found out that most history textbooks are false, and some authors have to guess what happened for instance the pyramids of Egypt, we have no solid proof that humans built them, and many stories have come up saying that aliens built them.
One of the last things that I learned is what is happening in Uganda where Joseph Coney is kidnapping young children and making them kill their own families, and turning the children into soldiers. Surprisingly this crisis is not being recognized and that is why Invisible Children is trying their best to get this crisis known. Many of the children that have been saved are scared for life, and some might not be able to ever overcome the events they have witnessed.

Most of these country's natives are in the position where there land is being taken over, or they are having their culture being taken away from them.

In America, the Indians are having there land being taken over by the colonists, and in later years they are moved all the way to California, and eventually overwhelmed by Americans. Some of the Indians in the early times of the British colonizing America the Indians helped them plant crops, and helped them hunt, resulting in the first Thanksgiving. Today the Indian culture still is going, but is not as good as how it used to be back then.

In Australia the Aborigines were having there land taken away from them along with having their culture being forcefully taken away from them. In the movie Rabbit Proof Fence, you see how young Aborigines are taken away to white settlements where they are forced to forget their culture and change into another one.

The natives in South Africa were being forced to go farther from where they originally were, so the Boers could take there land. The natives made a resistance, but were overcome by the Boer's better weapons. The South Africans now are a free country and have their own government, but are not doing so well economy wise.

Rwanda was never really colonized, but they were run by different countries. When Germany was in power they put the Tutsis in power and the Hutus were treated as "garbage". When Belgium took control they put the Hutus in power, and the Tutsis were not treated well. This power change resulted in the Rwandan genocide. Now Rwanda is a free country and is run by Paul Kagame, they are not doing very well, and Hutu extremists are being hunted down by Paul and his army.