Tuesday, January 19, 2010

MustacheLand


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What is your National Identity?
Our great country of Mustacheland is well known across the world as a country of happiness and good people. We welcome all and love all. We do not have one distinct faith. We believe in everyone having his or her own beliefs. We speak Mustache a mix of Pig Latin and Spanish. We are a mix of ethnicities being that we allow anyone to come live in our humble country. We have a wonderful president named Mr. Must Ardinstache. He is our leader and we would have nothing without him. He makes us strong and holds us together. Our main Industry is hair coats. These are coats woven from our countrymen’s great Mustaches. Every year on the fifth of May all men and women shave their mustaches for the first time that year. The hair is then used for the rest of the year to produce widely known hair coats that are warmer than fur coats. If you were to compare us to one other glorious nation it would be America. Even though America is not known as the United States of America yet we would best be described as that wonderful nation of the future.


Mustacheland- The Creation of the Nation; "A Fable"

The humble nation of Mustacheland was brought to this earth during the 1600s. The people of northeastern Cuba experienced a time of great depression, struggling through a deprivation of necessary items. One of these items happened to be shaving cream and razors. This led to the rapid growth of vast valleys of upper lip hair. The use of mustaches began being used for all common necessities, such as coats, blankets, clothing, hats, etc. When the discovery of great usefulness their upper lip hair was to them, it became the secure provider of warm clothing. This in turn led to the people of the land to shave their mustaches once every few months and make coats/warm clothing out of them. This nation became a strong community and gained much wealth through the vending of their newly discovered clothing. Since then, they have industrialized and created mass production industries, causing a great boom in their economy and coat sales. To this day, coats have kept their value and has made Mustacheland a valuable and dependent trade partner.
All hail Mustacheland!

Connections and Alliances

One country we would relate to is Japan, post Meiji Restoration. Mustacheland is know for its warm mustache hair coats, so since Japan is westernized we would partner up with them. At first we would trade with them, since their ports are open to western trade. We would trade our coats to them in return smelted iron, silk. Although it is a long distance to travel in order to trade, Japan had built steam ships by then, and would have no problem crossing the seas.
Eventually we would like to have Japan's help in mass producing the coats because they built many factories which specialize in mass production, and have large fleets of ship in order to trade with the rest of the world, so this could lead to a strong alliance. Their skill in production and trade, and our valuable and high quality coats.



2 comments:

  1. The problem with this nation, in my opinion, is that it couldn't exist. It's ok if you make up some details about your own nation, but the historical information you gave about other nations such as Cuba isn't even true. This post indicates that this project didn't teach you guys very much about other nations, because you just made up your own world using the names of nations on Earth.

    For example, its unrealistic to be able to mass produce coats and blankets out of mustache hairs. This could never happen in real life.

    Also during your time period moustache was spelled in that way, but its ok that you spelled it mustache since thats how Americans often spell it today, so sorry for any confusion during class.

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  2. Is it accurate to say that without your leader your nation would fall apart? A nation as fragile as this could not possibly exist. As Cy noted, many details lack general thought and common sense. However, the idea is very interesting. Although your nation makes a little sense, it isn't realistic to base a nation around mustaches. It's not significant enough to bring people together and allow a common interest. The fact that women grow facial hair is both fiction and quite disturbing.

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