Jihad vs. Mcworld

Jihad vs. McWorld

The main idea for this reading was the differences between Jihad and McWorld. The article that we read in My Humanities class talks a lot about McWorld. McWorld is a democracy that believes that they can bring everything together by their use of technology. The article talked about how technology now a day is what people if America and people from other countries use to mainly make their lives better. To solve all of their problems. McWorld in the worlds of the article would make the world better. With McWorld people would have more identity and freedom if the whole world decided to go the “McWorld” way. The article also talked about Jihad. Jihad is a democracy that mainly focuses on Religion. Jihad wants to have different cultures come together and all believe in one main thing. Jihad in a sense kinds of controls people. In Jihad one person is the leader of everything and they expect for everyone else to follow what they want to do. Kind of like Hitler. In jihad people don’t have freedom of speech and no identity. McWorld on the other hand let’s people live by the laws that America has today all over the world. Except us American make the decisions for them.

One of the questions that we were asked during our Seminar was “which do you think is more important Peace and Stability, or Identity and Community?” for this question I answered that I thought that Peace and Stability was more important. I said this because although I would love for everyone to know who I was in my community, Having Peace in my community and everywhere else and having stability in every community is way more important to me. Loosing identity really doesn’t matter to me because I already know who I am and I don’t need everyone else in the world to know. Peace and Stability lasts longer then Identity and community. A lot of people in my class took this question in many different ways and I though that they were all good. Some said that loosing identity meant that you didn’t know who you were and you just kind of became a ghost and I had to disagree with that as I took the question as being really well known in a community like Oprah! And to have a good community you need to have peace and stability in that community to make that happen. That was my answer to this seminar question.