Fundamentalism in North America.
I have to write about that. Ten pages.
At the end of one’s career as pupil, everyone (at least in Bavaria, don’t know about the other states) has to write a paper about a topic, that has something to do with one of the two main subjects you have choosen to write Abitur in.
I’ve choosen to write about fundamentalism in north america – in english. Yeah, I know I’m crazy. I could have picked a history topic (history being my second main subject), there were tons of it, even not that boring ones, but after I met these crazy north american fundamentalists (only virtual, but was enough to scare me) with all their »earth-is-7,000-years-old« stuff, I quickly became interested in that creationism and ID thing.
Not that I belive in it or something, but I was just astonished to see that such reactionary views of the world like creationism or ID can have such an huge impact on people living in an as modern society as the USA. Maybe I shouldn’t be that astonished, because reactionary ideologies have been – not that long ago – hugely successful in Germany, too …
Now (or at some point in the not so distant future) I have to start somehow. At least we have one year of time to write it. That should help me to get over my empty mind I have at the moment …
