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US Population Pyramid 2014 - 1 views

www.census.gov/...region.php Midterm Review Population
shared by Mr. Reidy on 30 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Mr. Reidy on 30 Dec 14
     
    Exam review: According to this population pyramid, what stage would the US be considered on the Demographic Transition Model? Why? Feel free to comment and/or post your PING PED country data using http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/idb/informationGateway.php as a resource.

Diigo Current Event Task Comments - 4 views

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Myanmar Army: Ethnic Rebels Kill 7 Gov't Troops - ABC News - 1 views

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shared by karasmith3 on 19 Dec 14 - No Cached
  • Ethnic rebels attacked an army outpost in northeast Myanmar, killing seven government troops and wounding 20 others
  • dozen ethnic rebel groups that have been fighting for decades for greater autonomy
  • The army's offensive was part of an effort to force ethnic groups to incorporate their militias into a government border guard force, a move most resisted
  • karasmith3 on 19 Dec 14
     
    Myanmar is a region of high ethnic conflict because there are about a dozen ethnic groups who all want more power in the government.  How would ethnic conflict in Myanmar effect religious tension?
  • mwaardenburg on 22 Dec 14
     
    Kara- I liked how you chose an article that dealt with ethnic conflict. In Myanmar, the ethnic groups struggling to gain power are a great example of how ethnicity effects the way people live and what their culture is like. This situation shows that ethnic conflicts are more common than people seem to notice.
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How ISIS Drives Muslims From Islam - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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  • THE Islamic State has visibly attracted young Muslims from all over the world to its violent movement to build a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But here’s what’s less visible — the online backlash against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, by young Muslims declaring their opposition to rule by Islamic law, or Shariah, and even proudly avowing their atheism
  • The BBC added that “many others joined in the conversation, using the hashtag, listing reasons why Arabs and Muslims should abandon Shariah.
  • “Black Ducks” to offer a space where agnostic and atheist Arabs can speak freely about their right to choose what they believe and resist coercion and misogyny from religious authorities.
  • neeltrivedi on 19 Dec 14
     
    This article links to religious conflicts as it shows the anger towards ISIS, an extremist sect of Islam, from other Muslims in the area and other Arabs who are atheist. Why does ISIS feel the need to have such a tight and violent grasp on the community they inhabit?
  • fruszkowski on 22 Dec 14
     
    I would also ask the same question on why the extremists are so violent towards others, and another important question is why are they violent to other Muslims.
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BBC News - Boko Haram unrest: Nigerian militants 'kidnap 200 villagers' - 0 views

www.bbc.com/...world-africa-30529178 Nigeria
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  • Boko Haram has taken control of several towns and villages in the north-east
  • Initially focused on opposing Western education - Boko Haram means "Western education is forbidden" in the Hausa language
  • Boko Haram has been waging an insurgency since 2009 and is seeking to create an Islamic state in north-eastern Nigeria.
  • jennabohrer on 19 Dec 14
     
    This article discusses an Islamic terrorist group in Nigeria, known as Boko Haram, that opposes all elements of Western culture. They have launched numerous attacks on civilians, including kidnapping nearly 200 school girls.  What sparked this violence?  Will it ever stop?
  • mdamschroder on 22 Dec 14
     
    The fact that it took four days for news of this attack to spread is a testament to how much location, specifically isolation, can affect the diffusion of news and information. In regards to the attack itself, I fail to see how this attack gets the group closer to achieving a goal. How does attacking a village, killing 33 people help to eliminate Western culture? This is just senseless killing.
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Religious conflict in global rise - report - Telegraph - 0 views

www.telegraph.co.uk/...ict-in-global-rise-report.html religion
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  • Violence and discrimination against religious groups by governments and rival faiths have reached new highs in all regions of the world except the Americas, according to a new report by the Pew Research Centre.
  • Results for strong social hostility such as anti-Semitic attacks, Islamist assaults on churches and Buddhist agitation against Muslims were the highest seen since the series began, reaching 33 percent of surveyed countries in 2012 after 29 percent in 2011 and 20 percent in mid-2007.
  • The five countries with the most government restrictions on religion are Egypt, China, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
  • ecahill1 on 19 Dec 14
     
    Religious conflicts are reaching new highs around the world as the government puts more restrictions on the faith of the people.  Why does the government restrict religions and what do the people or government gain from these restrictions?
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Northern Ireland hears an echo of itself in Israeli-Palestinian conflict - 4 views

america.aljazeera.com/...palestine-israelireland.html religious conflict
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  • attomasko on 19 Dec 14
     
    3 main ideas of the article: -Ultimately, Northern Ireland is a very small place, with a lot of madness, and in this sense it is also very similar to Israel. -Peace in Northern Ireland is there, but it's an unsettled peace. -Protestants, many descendants of Scottish and English settlers, see themselves in the Israelis' position - staking a righteous, ancient claim to territory in defiance of a force they view as bloodthirsty insurgents, the Irish Republican Army. This article talks about how there is still some unsettled people in all of Ireland, regarding religion. Also, during the unsettled peace, there are some incidents between Protestants and Roman Catholics, that connects to the Palestine-Israel conflict today. Will there be another religious war in Ireland?
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  • rscolforo on 21 Dec 14
     
    I liked this article because it talks about how the Ireland and Israeli-Palestine conflicts are not much different. With Catholics acting as Palestinians and Protestants acting as Israelis. In my opinion, the dispute will most likely keep getting worse until it hits a climax and a war between the religious groups over the land will break out.
  • lqmorris on 22 Dec 14
     
    It reminds me of the book I read, "Angela's Ashes" where the author mentions the stereotypes about Protestants that the Roman Catholics held even though these people weren't part of the conflict so long ago. The article is a reminder that history often repeats itself.
  • sophiefreeman7 on 22 Dec 14
     
    I liked how this article talked about two different conflicts and made a connection between the two. I also read Angela's Ashes, and it discussed the same religious conflict between Catholics and Protestants. Both of these issues signify the importance or meaning of territory to a religion, especially universal religions because of the hearth or birthplace. They have expanded and now try to return to the hearth which creates conflict as there are already people who have inhabited the area.
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Religious Discord Menaces Mideast as Israel-Palestinian Peacemaking Fails - Businessweek - 1 views

www.businessweek.com/...ael-palestinians-fail-at-peace Relgion Conflict War Israel Palestine
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  • An undercurrent of religious strife has burst to the fore in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, threatening to turn a political battle over land into a war of faiths between Muslim and Jew.
  • “If a political conflict is transformed into a religious war between Muslims and Jews, it becomes impossible to solve since religious problems tend to be absolutist.”
  • The radicals’ growing influence has changed the face of the Arab world, a change that “is also happening very quickly now in Palestinian society,” Ben-Zur said. In this combustible environment, Israeli officials must avoid actions or comments that can be interpreted as anti-Muslim, especially where the Jerusalem shrine is concerned, he said.
  • loganknepper on 19 Dec 14
     
    This article is about the Palestinian conflict we have been discussing in class, and how it seems to be turning from a racial to a religious war, changing from bad to worse. How much longer can this region go before full-out war begins? What other countries may be dragged into a possible war?
  • aspidle on 21 Dec 14
     
    I think because of the histories of the two places and the fact that what is happening now is because of years of increasing tensions and dangerous conditions, this conflict will not be solved soon, and because of that, it will only get worse. Both groups want the territory, but one group was placed there (the Jewish people by the British) so they spread and began to dominate, claiming it as theirs.
  • nwalseman on 22 Dec 14
     
    I agree with Alex, the tension in this region is historic and recently rekindled with the insertion of Israel back into this area. The conflict there is essentially a time bomb on its final countdown and is not likely to be dismantled before it goes off. From my perspective there is no way to stop it unless one religion is removed which is even more impossible.
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School attacked by Pakistani Taliban - 1 views

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  • The people they came, they had no sense of humanity in them. They killed little children. Muslims would not do this."
  • Not satisfied with their slaughter in the auditorium, the Taliban attackers went upstairs to a computer lab. Pools of blood on the floor show how their young victims, many of them sons and daughters of army personnel from around Peshawar, were sprayed with bullets as they sat at each machine.
  • more than 140 of them, mostly children, who'd blithely left home for an ordinary day at school, never to come home.
  • cpeytonj on 19 Dec 14
     
    A Taliban group attacked a Pakistan school. Many children and teachers were killed. These groups were opposed because they had different views on education. What was the Taliban seeking to accomplish by this action and how did they justify it?
  • btjohns on 19 Dec 14
     
    I'm asking the same question and I struggle to understand how these actions will solve the Taliban's problems. I don't get how killing the people they disagree with is the resolution they fall upon. Even other Muslims disagree with their way of dealing with these things.
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Israel Suffers Sharp Rebuffs From Europe - 1 views

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  • Israel suffered back-to-back diplomatic setbacks in Europe on Wednesday as Palestinians headed to the United Nations to try to set a two-year deadline for an Israeli withdrawal
  • In Geneva, the international community delivered a stinging rebuke to Israel's settlement construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, saying the practice violates Israel's responsibilities as an occupying power.
  • In Luxembourg, meanwhile, a European Union court ordered the Palestinian group Hamas removed from the EU terrorist list for procedural reasons but said the 28-nation bloc can maintain asset freezes against Hamas members for now.
  • llabell on 19 Dec 14
     
    Israel and Palestine have been in a religious conflict for many years, fighting for the same land. Do you think these events could have any impact in resolving the conflict?
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Time News: The Interview is cancelled. - 1 views

time.com/...ovie-review-canceled-sony-hack Interview North Korea
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  • dvannostrand on 19 Dec 14
     
    Although most people see this as a big joke of a comedy, it may develop into a very serious issue. The movie is racist toward the North Koreans,and mocks their culture.
  • cpeytonj on 19 Dec 14
     
    I agree that the movie mocks their culture, but due to the high firewall of North Korea, I do not see the uprising among their people, but rather their government. The government is drawing more attention to the issue.
  • jennabohrer on 19 Dec 14
     
    I agree with Peyton. Do you think that the general public is aware of the movie and the controversy that it is bringing? If so, to what extent?
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To Quell Unrest, Beijing Moves to Scatter Uighurs Across China - NYTimes.com - 3 views

www.nytimes.com/...hurs-across-han-territory.html ethnic conflict Migration Industry
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  • As a winter chill settled across China’s far northwest, 489 people boarded a chartered train in the city of Urumqi for the 50-hour ride to the country’s opposite corner, in semitropical Guangdong Province, to take up new factory jobs.
  • With violence upending the social order in sections of Xinjiang, where resistance to Beijing’s rule has been growing among ethnic Uighurs, officials there and elsewhere in China are pushing new measures — like chartering entire trains — to bring Uighurs and members of other ethnic minorities to parts of the country where the Han, the nation’s ruling ethnicity, are the majority.
  • Assimilation is only one element of the party’s strategy to quell ethnic unrest in Xinjiang. Security forces there have arrested large numbers of Uighurs, saying some are terrorists, and courts have issued death sentences.
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  • “people have a bias against Xinjiang people,” Mr. Cheng said. “We need to establish a new image.”
  • “The gap between the Han and Uighur communities has widened significantly since 2009,” he said, “and it’s hard to imagine these sort of state-orchestrated cohesion-building projects narrowing it.”
  • adukkipati on 19 Dec 14
     
    Since the Communist takeover of the region in 1949, the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority in China, have gotten a lot of religious and cultural persecution by Han Chinese. Similar to convicted communists during The Red Scare, Uyghurs have been prosecuted under false circumstances for separatist activities. While this isn't necessarily a dispute over territory, it's certainly an ethnic conflict and because of these hostilities, Uyghurs have a hard time finding migrant work within China. How does this relate to other ethnic conflicts like in Russia or Palestine?
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  • alexandergray on 21 Dec 14
     
    It is interesting how all of the people of China are viewed as being Chinese by outsiders, but are viewed much differently by the Chinese themselves. China seems to encompass more than what we believe is Chinese, including smaller ethnic groups like the Uyghurs. This seems to be reminiscent of the view of Native Americans in the United States today, who also have trouble finding work and live in relative poverty.
  • smarikunte on 21 Dec 14
     
    I never knew this was happening in China. Like Alex said, I did not know China had smaller ethnic groups. I thought the culture was relatively homogeneous. In the documentary we watched in class, I did not see any discrimination to different ethnic groups, either. It is interesting that the events taking place are very similar to The Red Scare in the United States. I wonder how China is going to resolve this conflict?
  • Gemma Standley on 22 Dec 14
     
    This is similar to the conflict in Palestine because of the persecution of a group of people resulting in hostilities such as protests, riots, etc. It is sad yet interesting that there are so many instances of such similar conflicts happening all over the world. It seems like if one was to be solved, the rest would be able to find similar solutions.
  • anonymous on 22 Dec 14
     
    I agree with Alexander about the similarity to Native Americans. Not only is China helping these people with jobs, but they are also making them go through the training programs which includes learning Mandarin, to the point where the minorities are in fear of losing their own identities. The Native Americans were forced to go through similar programs in order to "help them".
  • Mr. Reidy on 29 Dec 14
     
    One of the cities that we will be traveling to in China is Xian. This city has a large Muslim minority. Do ethnic groups form enclaves as a refuge?
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Swedish far-right leader: Jews must abandon religious identity to be Swedes | World new... - 1 views

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  • Jews cannot be Swedes unless they abandon their Jewish identity.
  • “I am appalled that Sweden’s third largest party can express itself in this way about Jews and other minorities,” she said. “We have to take them really seriously. This not a small group of fanatics you can dismiss.”
  • Söder had said in a newspaper interview it would be a problem if there were too many people in Sweden “who belong to other nations” and had non-Swedish identities. Paying immigrants to go home would also help to avoid “foreign enclaves” and instead “create a society with a common identity”, he said.
  • btjohns on 19 Dec 14
     
    The Swedes refuse Jews to become Swedes if they do not abandon their Jewish identity. How will Jews from other countries react to this resolution to decrease immigrant migration?
  • Mr. Reidy on 29 Dec 14
     
    Wow. Interesting article. Why do you think this political party has a policy such as this? Does the US have any third parties with similar beliefs?
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Taliban school attack: 145 killed in Pakistan siege - CNN.com - 1 views

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  • By the time the hours-long siege at Army Public School and Degree College ended early Tuesday evening, at least 145 people -- 132 children, 10 school staff members and three soldiers
  • The attack drew sharp condemnation from top Pakistani officials, who vowed that the country wouldn't stop its war against the Taliban.
  • But he said the ambush at the school is another example of how great his nation's sacrifices have been in fighting that's raged for more than a decade.
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  • Peshawar, an ancient city of more than 3 million people tucked right up against the Khyber Pass, has often found itself in the center of it all. Militants repeatedly targeted the city in response to Pakistani military offensives,
  • fruszkowski on 19 Dec 14
     
    The extremist Islamic group Taliban has attacked a Pakistani school for religious purposes. These conflicts occur because of strong religious opposition to modern government.Why would they target children of all people.
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  • dknepper on 19 Dec 14
     
    I know that the extremist group, the Taliban, hate western views because they are very religious in the Islamic faith, but I also find it strange that the Taliban would attack a school full of children. Maybe it was to really cause an impact on the people living in Pakistan and to make those people scared.
  • amartin55 on 20 Dec 14
     
    Its such a shame that the Taliban commits these kinds of acts because it gives muslims in general a bad reputation even though REAL muslims condone their acts and have no affiliation with them. This also causes racism towards muslims because unfortunately the Taliban is the only thing we hear about that is affiliated with muslims from western media.
  • neeltrivedi on 22 Dec 14
     
    The Taliban are a vile extremist group of Islam, and unfortunately very loud, we sadly only hear horrible, violent things from such a peaceful religion.
  • neeltrivedi on 22 Dec 14
     
    I also agree with Alec, people are racist to those who look middle eastern, just because of the horrible terrorists out there. It doesn't even matter if they are Islam, let alone extremists.
  • Mr. Reidy on 29 Dec 14
     
    Nice thread of discussion. How are stereotypes formed?
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PressTV - Indigenous people protest in Brazil over land bill - 1 views

www.presstv.ir/...enous-people-protest-in-brazil Ethnicity Political Geography Industry
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  • Nearly 300 native Brazilians, armed with bows and arrows, have demonstrated against a bill which calls for allocation of land to indigenous people.
  • Many native people are worried that legislators permit food and agribusiness industry to employ lands which previously belonged to Indians’ ancestors. 
  • Brazil’s indigenous people’s concern cannot be considered groundless as a number of congressmen have allegedly expressed support for the change.
  • anonymous on 19 Dec 14
     
    According to this article, the land reserved specifically for the indigenous people of Brazil is being threatened to be taken away from them for industrial uses. Apparently, the reserves have been a source of multiple conflicts concerning who the land should belong to. While reading this article all I could think about was how this is similar to the depleting reserves of the Native Americans in the United States.
  • nwalseman on 22 Dec 14
     
    This does not seem to be so much a conflict of religions themselves but rather the conflict of beliefs of one with the modernizing world. Perhaps, in the case of the natives of Brazil and Native Americans as you mentioned, the conflicts are needed to protect the environment and almost play devil's advocate in order to keep some of the world alive for future generations.
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