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May. 19th, 2009 12:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
(ie. 99% Americas and Englands with a tiny dose of Lithuania, China and Japan)



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Good afternoon everyone! How are you doing? I hope you are having a spectacular day with loads of fun <3
For a long, long time, an idea has been floating around some hetalia and
hetalia_esp users’ minds: they longed to make a spanish community dedicated to all those countries from Latin America that were actually involved in the world wars, whether they supplied their basic needs or provided shelter to the immigrants, despite their neutrality.
Well, thanks to such idea last night, around 10PM more or less, latin_hetalia was born.
It is still a small community, still growing and being developed by both owners and members, yet anxious to provide as much fun as it is possible for us to provide its members and share a pleasant moment while exchanging historical facts and sharing works about these characters so beloved by us.
If you are interested, please, join us, we would love to have you here! <3
http://jackalyn.livejournal.com/2009/05/19/
I'm sure you've seen me lurk many times before this....and now I de-lurk because of an interesting comment I read.
I am currently working towards becoming a high school teacher (and will be subbing sometime in the future...I hope). Why is this even relevant? Well, I would like to know:
How do you think Axis Powers Hetalia should be integrated in the classroom?
I think it could be used to encourage memorization of historical events and but if there are other ways (or no ways at all) I would love to hear them.
However one of the biggest obstacles with Hetalia in the classroom is the fact that it is a satire.
High school (and first /second year college) students take satires a little too seriously, such as Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal and Voltaire's Candide. Hetalia may (or may not) be more shocking than funny at first. (Although I think that the reason these works may be taken too seriously is because students have been engineered to take everything literally.)
Then again, one look at N. Italy is enough to remind all that this is just for laughs. (My sister loves Germany and HRE but now cringes at the sight of Chibitalia).
And don't limit it just to a History class. Expand it to English/Literature, Government, Language, and maybe even Science classes.
Title: Sprog
Artist/Author: KivaEmber
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Young!Prussia, Germany, England
Rating: T because of Arthur's foul mouth
Summary: Re_Born verse. "So. What's with the sprog?" Arthur pops round to drag Ludwig out for a beer and instead comes face to face with Gilbert.