Ideals
This is a story we tell to justify actions.
What is ideology?
This is a system designed to seperate people based on physical appearance.
What is Race?
This policy led to a legacy of racial difference, forming a self-fulfilling racial prophecy.
What is segregation/immigration restrictions.
This fact makes the Declaration of Indepence an undemocratic hypocrisy.
What is the shared status of slave holder among all but 13 of 47 signatories?
This is an absoultely integral first step to building a better world than the one we were born to.
What is Critical Thinking. Not necessarily tearing down other ideas, but reviewing that which we know as 'common sense' to form a more robust understanding.
This ideology states that free trade must be protected at all costs, human rights and dignity come second to profit.
What is Neoliberalism/Capitalism/Neoliberal Capitalism?
This violent socio-economic system created racial superiority as a justifying ideology.
What is Slavery?
This is the practice that denies home loans to people living in 'undesirable', often black, neighborhoods.
This ideology was the motivating factor in US expansion West to the pacific coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This plays a substantial role in the development of hegemonic ideologies, and exporting ideologies abroad.
What is media?
This ideology states that all people are not created equal, and some are naturally born better than others.
What is Supremacism?
Xenophobia, fear of others, feuls this kind of policy in the US.
What is Anti-Immigrant policy, ICE, or Policing?
Asian-Americans today are often lumped together under this stereotype, due to a legacy of restrictive policies only allowing immigration from wealthy, educated people.
What is the Model Minority?
This decade saw landmark civil rights protests, shifting immigration policy, and growing anti-communist sentiment.
What are the 60's?
How we make our homes more enviormentally friendly, and move past european conceptions of a beautiful home.
What is a lawn-less yard?
This ideology states there are immutable aspects of society that must be preserved.
What is fundamentalism?
This is the difference between ideology and practice.
What is affect. Ideology is a belief, Practice gives ideology physical presence in the world.
This policy was meant to undo decades of selective admissions in colleges, and universities, but was banned in California (1996) and across the US (2023).
What is Affirmative Action?
This country acted as one of the first forays into international empire for the US, and the occupation was featured in the 'Savage Acts' film.
What are the Phillipines (Hawaii/Puerto Rico ok too)?
While typically reserved for talking about the US and USSR during the cold war. Today, China and other nations across the globe have been reaching this international ideological status.
What is a Superpower?
This is the suffix which can help you quickly identify ideologies.
What is -ism? (Capitalism, Communism, Environmentalism, Futurism, etc)
These two organizations work to uphold capitalism, and US hegemony, globally.
What is the IMF, International Monetary Fund, and World Bank.
This is the aggregate materials, machines, and labor necessary to participate in the US economy held by few, and distributed through wages, salary, charity, and taxes.
What is Capital?
What is the interstate highway system?
Current ICE operations across the country are in direct violation of these two constitutional amendments.
The fifth and fourteenth amendments.