#1: Terrorism All Over

In the book An Introduction To Criticism, Michael Ryan talks about terrorism and people associated with it. People stereotype specific groups, for example: when people think terrorism, they automatically think of Muslim or Islamic groups. If an American went somewhere and shot a bunch of people no one would think of him as a terrorist (even though he is), they just think of him as another psycho killer you see on the news every day. We spend most of our time worrying about the terrorism in other countries when we could do more to fix the terrorism here. He is also talking about how certain behaviors are accepted in certain cultures because they are part of the culture, such as teaching young boys to become killers. These are practices common to Islamic and Muslim culture, but Americans would be outraged.  Americans see as terrorists, Muslims see them as freedom fighters. He also gives the example of Germans witnessing Jews forced into concentration camps and turning a blind eye to these atrocities.  That was because those behaviors were socially accepted in that culture. Muslims think that America is an evil culture. They think our behavior is unacceptable. Every culture has their customs and traditions. What’s weird to one person may be totally acceptable to another. The author brings up many points in his article about criticism. He talks about a point of capitalism. He says that the majority of people work while the minority of people benefits from it. He talks about wealth being conformed about what people value certain items. In example a bill with a 10 wrote on it is worth less than a bill with a 100 wrote on it. Although it is the same material . We just assign a value to it and say that’s what it is worth. All paper money is worthless. The paper itself is worthless but the gold that backs the paper is what gives it value. All paper money is backed by gold. Otherwise our bills would just be a pile of paper lying around.