M&Ms or Skittles, Hmmmm

In class recently, we learned about the main ideologies floating around Europe during the 19th and 18th century, mainly liberalism, nationalism, and conservatism. Although these terms are present in modern politics, they have very different definitions. For our activity, we were divided into six separate groups. Each pair of two groups were assigned an ideology to perform about. The groups were then had to make and present a one minute video or skit about their assigned ideology. After the videos or skits were presented the class the voted on which video best represented our ideal.

For our video, we had to represent nationalism. We decided to use to create a video using Chatterpix. We started the video with the multicolored M&Ms, symbolising the divided nationalists, fighting each other over who is the best color. Then we had a skittle, who was supposed to be the foreign ruler, attack the skittles. The M&Ms then set aside their differences and banded together to defeat the skittle.

Nationalism arose after the defeat of Napoleon during the Seventh Coalition war, Italians and Germans then saw that their unification was a strength 

During the 19th century, the nationalism arose as an ideology. Nationalism was especially popular in the countries of central Europe, which are the lands that have constantly been conquered by foreign powers. Nationalism was the idea that people of a common descent should band together to prevent a foreign leader from taking them over.

Over the 19th century, two other ideologies also arose. The first one is liberalism. Liberalism was very popular within the middle classes of Europe. Liberalism's basis was the idea of a meritocracy, which is giving power to those who deserve it, unlike the atricorcy which had been in prominence in Europe for many years. Because of this Liberalism was very popular among the middle class because it granted them the most power out of all the ideologies. On the contrary, Conservatism was also very popular during this time perode. Conservatism advocated for keeping the aristocracy because they felt that the aristocracy was a secure way of ruling. Unsurprisingly, this was only popular among the nobles and the Church who benefited from the aristocracy.

The Five M&Ms