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swedishbadgergirl  ·  2652 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 11, 2016

So I've switched from the demanding and exausting IB to a much nicer national program. I've also shifted my focus from natural sience to social science wich fits me much better.

I recently learned that the social science class at my school is called the "communist-class" by some and thati he kinda true stereotype about the social science class at our school. I mean, it's truer to say that a lot of people are socialists, but to an american that might sound just as bad.

But my ideologi fits quite nicely in that box so I feel very much at home.

A lot of people here cared a lot about the US election. And for us there was a very obvious choice. That more americans actually voted for.

We we're supposed to study economics at the moment, starting the ninth, but eh... Our teacher realised in her infinte wisdom that we would probably not talk about anything else than Trump so as she found out the results she wrote an assignement (the turnaround between getting results and us getting the assignement was less then a day, and I think she finished it during the morning which would have been like 3 hours.)

Anyway, the assignement was about 1. a summary of Trumps and Clintons policies 2. a description of the american electoral system and most important 3. choosing an area and evaluationg how trumps policies will affect this area.

And this is one depressing assignement, really fun though but also... Yeah. I choose how Trumps policies would affect the media (or not really policie, just.. how he has acted and how that will effect media) since I am addicted to shows like Full Frontal (I actually managed to include THIS segment from full frontal as a source and my teacher said it was fine. I also managed to include the line "considering Trumps feelings for Putin". Yes I am way to proud abou that.) Last Week Tonight, The Daily Show etc.

And like, this was a very easy assignement to write for very sad reasons.

Also, she gave us this assignement on the 9th and we ere to turn it in on the 20th. So she's good at setting thematical due dates.

And when we had the class discussing HOW and TRUMP and WHY on the 9th she wrote "A day of sorow" on the board.

So yeah, that's a Swedish perspective on the president-elect.





user-inactivated  ·  2647 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's good to have you back, swedishbadgergirl.

dublinben  ·  2651 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You might find this site helpful as you are writing your paper: https://www.justsecurity.org/36303/normalization-watch/

swedishbadgergirl  ·  2651 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thank you!