At 10/31/09 01:59 PM, OddlyPoetic wrote:
Sounds like you're going for a Racist Angle. Which i don't think your teach will approve of.
And "total annihilation" is not all realistic.
Racism is a major part of the reason why we Nuked Japan. I am writing the paper in character so that is what a person from 1945 would do.
FUCK.
Here is an example of the paper I wrote before this one on the annexation of the Philippines. This way you can understand what the class is like. RACISM at the time WAS NOT RACISM.
America is a nation unfit for the annexation of colonies. Our country is not strong enough financially, and culturally to annex the Philippines; the massive amount of money it would cost our great country would vastly outweigh any possible benefit provided through annexation. The only option for the Philippines and its people is clear; we must release them unto themselves free of Spain and free of ourselves.
America is not capable of taking in another landmass under our control with all the problems we face on our own soil. We as a nation are in very dark times. The panic of 1893 has had several lasting effects that will plague us for many years to come and, if allowed may, become the downfall of our great nation. The tramp wanders our streets looking for work and stealing that which he cannot buy. The populist spews his propaganda and lies to the public stealing votes from true American politicians focused on bettering our country. The populists even propose the government borrow them money in exchange for crops . This idea of government interference in daily lives and government control of business is Anti-American. We must deal with these un-American uprisings before we can even think about absorbing new peoples. Our economy is still not fully recovered and for all we know may not recover completely. Including another group of immigrant workers would only undercut the already declining job market for strong White Anglo-Saxon men who are vital to our economy. The Philippine infestation will reduce job opportunities and lower the economy to even worse depths. Groups like the Pullman-strikers and the Populists need to be America's first focus. We need to stamp out all anti-American groups before we can take on new peoples.
The Philippine people would not mix well with American ideals. Some say we need to embrace the Philippine people and raise them from their ignorance. This is not the case, colonizing and Christianizing these people before we have even elevated our own immigrants is an appalling thought. This Philippine race is an abomination my colleague Senator Ben Tillman of South Carolina sums it up perfectly "You are undertaking to annex and make a component part of this government islands inhabited by ten millions of the colored race, one half or more of whom are barbarians of the lowest type. It is to the injection the body politic of the United States that vitiated blood that debased and ignorant people, that we object." The Philippine people are unintelligent brutes we cannot allow America to be any further tainted. The great white race is being tainted by the continual addition of inferior races. We cannot subject the fair American people to this savage race, we must protect them and keep contact with these beasts to a minimum. The only answer is to not annex and in effect accept these people to our shores.
The cost of maintaining the Philippines would be substantial, and is almost certainly a preamble to war. Our economy is not ready to partake in the war that will surely ensue from the usurpation of the Philippines. The creation of battleships and training of army personnel equipped to deal with this kind of confrontation would cost immense amounts of money. America cannot afford to be a global imperial power, we ourselves struggled underneath the rule of Great Britain, after such travesties done to our forefathers how can we push ourselves onto the Philippines. We have no need to develop control in the Far East Asian Markets. All this will do is bring us into more conflicts with other countries. To maintain our strength we must build upwards in our own country, not outwards annexing land rightfully belonging to others. Some may say that if we don't participate in the Far East market we will fall behind economically and miss a piece of the growth provided by the Asian markets. This is a fallacy, we have wide markets in South America and Europe, the Asian people are a very simplistic and un-advanced people, and our technology would be of no use to those who still live in huts and worship "The Gods." The Philippines is an extravagant fairy tale that to be obtainable would drain our economy without offering any real gains or markets to exploit.
The Ideal of Manifest Destiny is an outdated and undeniably impossible feat to apply any longer in this new age. We can no longer gallivant across the world claiming land for our own, accepting the peoples and allowing them to become Americans. We must be Elitist, selective in our allowance of the great privilege of American citizenship. We are not ready as a nation socially, economically, or culturally to accept these peoples, our attention must remain on our own problems of today in our home country.
