Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

Nationalism is when you have pride in your country/heritage. You know that you are from a curtain heritage is when people have a lot of things in common. One of it could be place of origin and language. These are things that represents culture. Having similar culture is the foundation of being of a nation, a union of people of the same culture. Naturally going to another place where they have different culture like a country like America, a person will lose some or all of the their culture. Mixing a culture is called cultural diffusion. In America people often mix culture or forget one and practice the other.

I am Mexican American. I show I am nationalistic by practicing Mexican culture. But the downside is when being exposed to a different culture then that my parents thought me, it is hard to practice both. So with the cultural diffusion I don't practice as much mexican culture like the holidays

Italy separated from this huge empire called the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The empire fell because the empire could not hold the tension of all the countries wanting to be their own country. So Italy separated itself from the empire. So after becoming a country it developed its own culture and traditions.

Simon Bolivar and the Latin American Revolutions

The French and American revolution both had the same concept of fighting off a curropt government and creating your own government. These wars sparked an idea to the minds of people that were controlled as well. Most of South American belonged to Spain and present-day Brazil used to belong to Portugal. People in South America wanted to break free from control of Spain. Many important figures in South America came about because the deeply cared about the freedom of South America. One of these important figures was Simon Bolivar. He was a man with a troubled past as like his parents not being there for him and his wife dieing. Even with this past he still managed to become one of the most influencal people of this revolution. As he was traveling through the U.S. he saw how the Americans fought for their rights to freedom and saw how happy there were that now they have it. He wanted this for his own country and all of South America.

Bolivar dream was to create a united nation with all places in South America called the "Gran Colombia". The only way he knew it was possible was through getting South Americas freedom. So he fought and got freedom for the countries in South America.