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Gemmati Mike Dr. Malik HST 102.07 10/7/07 Question # 1 Martin Luther King Jr., a famous American civil rights leader once said, Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. When deciding my view point on the topic of what do I think is the importance of the study of the world history to us as Americans is, this quote played a large role. The United States of America for many reasons is the sole super power of the world. I feel that with this title there are many things that a country of our power is obligated to do and the best way to do this is to have a vast knowledge of history because it tends to repeat itself. In the first place, history offers a storehouse of information about how people and societies behave. Understanding the operations of people and societies is difficult. How can we evaluate war if the nation is at peace unless we use historical materials? How can we understand the influence of technological innovation, or the role that beliefs play in shaping family life, if we don't use what we know about experiences in the past? The United States is a leader wither we like it or not, our economy and our strength among other things allow us to do this, because of this we must study other cultures to understand why they do this or that. I feel as if because we are the main leader of the world we should be able to keep the world safe and moderate certain things for the good of world safety. An example of the United States acting as a world leader in history is there role in the United Nations; with out the United States the UN would really not be as strong as it is today. As Americans we should study the history of the economy because now more then ever there is a growing global economic interdependence on one and another. The United States imports a great deal of there goods and in order to do so they must understand the cultures in which they are getting there goods from. Also being the world leader the United States should also be somewhat held responsible trade and the over all world economic situation because we have so much power and influence. Another reason that the study of world history is important to Americans is a military aspect. We must understand why another country what does they do. An example of this can come from 9/11/2001 to us we saw evil people doing unjust things to undeserving people. But to the actual attackers it was more then that it was a chance to do the work of there god. The only way to understand this would be to fully understand the thinking behind it and the religion of the attackers. As the world super power from a military aspect we can not afford to be ignorant as we are being today. The war over seas that we are currently engaged in, thanks to our not very knowledgeable president George Bush, could have easily been avoided just by simply understanding the people and realizing that war was not and is not the answer there. Politically and from a law point of view, history plays a huge role. In order for us as Americans to consistently grow and expand our country we must be able to learn from our past failures and success. We can t be narrowed minded and proceed with blinders on if we want to be successful. From the law and order point of view we should be able to look at history and see how awful things like slavery were in order to ensure that things of this caliber never happen again. And politically speaking we must be open to new policies and learn from the past in order to keep our government, the thing that really separates us from all other countries, active and going strong. From a terrorism aspect it is vital that we learn about the terrorist first before we take swift actions. An example of when we did not do this also comes from 9/11 in which we just went about it and right into war. To better understand how to defeat terrorism we must learn and study what there goals are how they plan to achieve them as well as what makes them tick. Being the world leader, just like being any other kind of leader, there are certain things that you must abide by and certain standards and rules that you must follow in order to do your job efficiently. In order to achieve this, a person must be able to look back at the course of history to fully understand, because like I previously mentioned; history tends to repeat it self. Not only should you look and use history for that reason but also because a person or in this case a country must be able to learn from past failures and successes.

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