AN100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Aum Shinrikyo, Mutual Assured Destruction, Ethnic Cleansing
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5 members of aum shinrikyo movement took weapons to tokyo subway and killed ppl and pointed them. Trance dance- power to heal, some have special powers to see ghosts. In na it was indigous that was holding back progress . Exam: ethnocide- exterminate a culture of a people and their beliefs. Indigous language religion in canada exterminated by french and british. Genocide- attempt to completly exterminate a population. Diaspora- a population whose members are dispersed and living outside their homeland. Have to have weapons because others have it, peace is maintained that both mad - mutually assured destruction. Iraq and afghanistan- culture gap american forces have, the average soldier has no clue about the culture, us forces hire anthropologist who know the culture, civilian casualties can be minimized, human terrain teams. Candadian society and race is assumed to be ascribed.
