Group A, Question 1: A lot of Muslim youth feel ostracized, unwanted, and depraved socially. Despite the multiculturalism in places like France and Germany, both countries haven’t done a great job of bringing their two largest cultures together. As a result, Muslims, of any generation, often feel like they don’t belong, and are often vulnerableContinue reading “Post #12”
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Post #10
Zemni and Parker give a few reasons for the “failure of integration” of Muslims in Europe. For one, the EU seems to have always had a problem with values and customs that don’t match a Judeo-Christian way of life, just on a fundamental basis. Those fundamentals may very well be exaggerated in the minds ofContinue reading “Post #10”
Post #9: All About the Islam
1: There’s 4 big myths discussed by Justin Vaisse: Muslims are fully characterized by their religion, Muslims are inherently foreign, they form a “distinct, cohesive, and bitter group”, and Muslims are beginning to catch up to the “native” population. These are incorrect for plenty of reasons. For starters, religion is religion and to assume entireContinue reading “Post #9: All About the Islam”
Post #8: Modern Geopolitics? Or something like that?
“It makes it possible to draw up differences: Among patients, to observe the symptoms of each individual, without the proximity of beds, the circulation of miasmas, the effects of contagion confusing the clinical tables; among school-children, it makes it possible to observe performances (without there being any imitation or copying), to map aptitudes, to assessContinue reading “Post #8: Modern Geopolitics? Or something like that?”
Post #7
In 1953, America and Britain collaborated to overthrow the happily democratic Iranian regime and return Reza Shah to monarchal dictatorship. It was a truly upsetting display of deceit by two Western superpowers, and objectively, Iran isn’t wrong to have a suspicious and spiteful glare at the West for how they operate and what they’re willingContinue reading “Post #7”
Post #6: Oh My God, I’m So Conflicted
I don’t know if it was the content that I was consuming or just listening to the Kilner’s audiobook at 1.75x was what I needed to really get absorbed in this content, but this is the most captivated I’ve ever been by a reading for a writing intensive. Mustafa Kemal has one of the mostContinue reading “Post #6: Oh My God, I’m So Conflicted”
Post #5: Defining Geopolitics and the Importance of History
I’ve never given much thought to the true definition of geopolitics. I’ve taken the name at face value and kind of put two and two together. I assumed it was little more than the political relationship between different countries, states, and territories. The way Dugin defines that term, isn’t far off from mine, it justContinue reading “Post #5: Defining Geopolitics and the Importance of History”
Post #4: Loans in Africa?
I’m not gonna start off this entry by pretending to understand the business of loans in Africa from sources that I’m still not entirely sure of the origin of. There were a lot of acronyms that I feel I never got a definition of and I just kind of accepted it. I just now googledContinue reading “Post #4: Loans in Africa?”
Post #3
The “Big Man”, as briefly described by Radelet in chapter 3 of Emerging Africa, refers to the dictators of the countries yet to emerge in Africa around the time of the late 1980s before democracy had risen in popularity. “Big Man” was a state of being as well as a mindset for those who wereContinue reading “Post #3”
Post #2: South Sudan’s Growth; Relative to That of Emerging African Nations
There’s a few factors that have been strongly contributing to Africa’s economic, humanitarian, and self-sustaining growth in the last couple decades. For example, the governments of a number of countries are becoming more democratic and reliable in terms of how much trust the citizens of each nation have in their leaders (These nations including Ghana,Continue reading “Post #2: South Sudan’s Growth; Relative to That of Emerging African Nations”
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