My last name starts with P, and I had two options, PostColonial or PeaceBlogs, and since someone just did PostColonial, I thought I would do PeaceBlogs. PeaceBlogs is a site that is made of a collection of blogs made by other people. The site started after the first bomb hit Baghdad and the site only accepted posts for about a year. There is a collection of 2272 blogs on the site from 89 countries around the world. The site is still active for everyone to read the feelings of people around the world the war on Iraq as well as war in general. It was interesting to see that mostly all people agree, that war is not the answer to America's problem. The most interesting was seeing all the blogs, and most of the international one could not be read because they were written in another language other than English. Other than having American blogs dominate the blog, Brazilians weren't that far behind them in the number of blogs. It looked like a battle between the two countries going back and forth.
It seems like eveyrone is against war and would like to see this war end, and this blog began as the first bomb was dropped. The authors were from all over the world from different backgound and different cultures. It would be to hard to generalize them. From the blogs though, I did feel where they were coming from because I was opposed to the war from the beginning. There was a picture of an elderly woman and man eating their breakfast and it looked as if nothing had changed because of the war. Life is still the same, and war made no difference at all.
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