GENOCIDE. Compare and Contrast different definitions of Genocide Work individually at first and read through the different definitions of genocide Compare.

GENOCIDE

Compare and Contrast different definitions of Genocide • Work individually at first and read through the different

definitions of genocide • Compare and Contrast the different definitions. What do

they have in common? What is different?• Turn to the person next to you and compare notes • Work with a partner and come up with a definition of

Genocide that you will share with the class

Do Now • Please answer the following question on a separate piece

of paper from your notes. This will be collected and count as classwork.

• Do you believe that 9/11 was a genocide? Why or why not, be sure to explain your answer.

Quotes on Genocide • There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are

all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.• Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it

gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

INTRODUCTION TO GENOCIDE

What are our goals today?• Explain why the Holocaust is the most famous genocide• Examine different definitions of the term ”Genocide” • Compare and Contrast different definitions • Define “Genocide” in our class

Why is the Holocaust the most famous Genocide? • One of the most documented events in history • Many materials on the Holocaust (books, videos, etc) • Captured the interested of everyone • Focal Point (Western Europe, place, and time) • Many survivors still alive

Discuss….• Has the United States ever committed a Genocide?• Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Genocides of the 20th Century • 1904 - German government massacred over 81% of the

population of the Hereros in southern Africa (65,000 out of a total population of 80,000).

• 1915 - Ottomans killed over one million Armenians attempting to completely eradicate (kill) all of the Armenians living in Turkey.

• 1919 - Ukrainians executed up to 250,000 Jews. • Early 1930s - Stalin of the Soviet Union purposely starved to

death up to ten million Ukrainian people. • Late 1930s - Soviet Union shot and killed up to 500,000 people

for political reasons (there is proof that in 1937-1938, sometimes up to 1000 persons were shot per day in Moscow alone).

• Early 1940s - Nazi Holocaust killed nearly six million Jews by firing squad, burning alive, and poison gas.

Genocides (cont.)• Early 1940s - Germans executed up to 500,000 gypsies in an attempt to

destroy them. 8. 1950s - China attempted to destroy Buddhism in Tibet and killed thousands.

• 1965 - Indonesia killed 600,000 people accused of being "communist.”Late 1960s - Tutsi killed up to 300,000 Hutus in African nation of Burundi.

• Since 1965 - over 100,000 Indians killed in Guatemala by military. • Late 1960s - thousands of Ibos in Nigeria were massacred or starved to

death by the government. • 1971 - up to three million Bengalis killed by the Pakistan government.• 1972-1973 - Thousands of Ache Indians were tortured, enslaved, or killed

by the Paraguayan government. • Late 1970s - up to three million Kampucheans killed by the Kmer Rouge.• 1975 to present - up to 100,000 out of a total population of 600,000 East

Timorans killed by Indonesian troops. • 1980s - Thousands of Bahai have been tortured and killed in Iran and

Middle East.

Have you ever….

• Overheard a joke that made fun of a person of a different ethnic background, race, religion, or sexual orientation?

• Been the target of name calling because of your ethnic group, race, religion, gender or sexual orientation?

• Made fun of someone different than you? • Left someone out of an activity because they are different than you? • Not been invited to attend an activity or social function because many

of the people there are different from you?• Engaged in stereotyping (lumping together all people of a particular

race, religion, or sexual orientation? (Ex. White men can’t jump.) • Been threatened by someone different from you because of your

difference? • Committed an act of violence against someone because that person is

different from you?

Could this happen at MTHS?• In one school, a group of four boys began whispering and

laughing about another boy in their school that they thought was gay. They began making comments when they walked by him in the hall. Soon, they started calling the boy insulting anti-gay slurs. By the end of the month, they had taken their harassment to another level, tripping him when he walked by and pushing him into a locker while they yelled slurs.

• Some time during the next month, they increased the seriousness of their conduct – they surrounded him and two boys, held his arms while the others hit and kicked him. Eventually, one of the boys threatened to bring his father’s gun into school the next day to kill the boy. At this point another student overheard the threat and the police were notified.

• (From Sticks and Stones by Stephen L. Wessler)

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