Before and during Friday’s class we had discussed what political modernity was and how it affected how we see things. The reading really focused on how bureaucracies and institutions all around the world were based off of enlightenment ideas that generally came from European philosophers.

Because of this it had really showed how when I’ve been talking about history, it’s only based and related to how Europe had done these things. It has also made me realize that as a group, we haven’t really celebrated the accomplishments of smaller, younger countries  or how major world problems have affected them.