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Chaya Seewoonarain

Rev. Jesse Jackson: Why Africa Matters - 0 views

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africa ivory coast democracy globalization

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  • Chaya Seewoonarain on 26 Aug 09
     
    Perfect example of the paternalist and colonialist view of Africa is Nicolas Sarkozy's discourse in Dakar's university in 2007. Here is the link to the translation of the speech: http://marian.typepad.com/marians_blog/2008/04/africa-outside.html
  • Chaya Seewoonarain on 26 Aug 09
     
    What strikes me is that while Reverend Jesse Jackson speaks about Ivory Coast's path to democracy, his discourse begins with the material prospects that Africa has always represented in the eyes of the West. Is that why Africa matters?
  • Chaya Seewoonarain on 26 Aug 09
     
    We ignore Africa at our peril. The African continent will only become more important in the future, and the whole world has a stake in what happens there.
Blaze Yau

China upgrades palace of Dalai Lamas - 0 views

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national identity China Tibet

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  • Blaze Yau on 26 Aug 09
     
    China says the project is part of its plan to promote Tibetan culture and language in the region as it develops its economy, of which tourism forms a major part.
sayaka uchida

Aboriginal people seek refugee status - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) - 0 views

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indigenous refugee

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  • A group of Aboriginal people has asked the United Nations to register them as refugees,
  • people of the Alyawarra Nation have been left with no choice because the federal intervention in the Northern Territory has taken away their rights.
  • The community was protesting about their living conditions, including broken septic tanks in their government-owned houses, and about intervention policies.
Andrew Ooi

Internet users upset over Govt's filter attempt - 0 views

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Internet Censorship Malaysia

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  • mulling an Internet filtering system similar to China’s controversial “Green Dam” project
  • Government has called for a tender for a system that could block “undesirable websites.”
  • The MSC Malaysia Bill of Guarantees specifies that the Internet will not be censored to ensure the success of the MSC Malaysia initiative
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  • Many in the Government have blamed the vibrant and critical Internet culture for Barisan Nasional’s losses in the 12th General Election in March last year, and there has been pressure from some quarters to muzzle the medium. The Government had previously considered registering bloggers, many of whom are critical of the ruling coalition.
  • anonymous on 25 Aug 09
     
    Mandatory internet filtering is a form of censorship. Full stop. Not only is the concept being considered in Malaysia but also right here in Australia too. Governments claim the internet filtering will only serve to filter out "harmful" web content - but who is to decide what is "harmful"? The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) serves to monitor web content and attempts to ensure illegal documentation such as child pornography ceases to be available online. But in terms "harmful" content... where is the line drawn?
xinning ji

China still interested in Asia-Pacific plan | The Australian - 0 views

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  • China understood the proposal was a multilateral issue that would be considered separately from the present difficulties besetting the Sino-Australian relationship .
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 24 Aug 09
       
      I think what the decision China made is rational and considerable. this is because when the emergence of globalization, China begun to face up to criticizes from foreign countries, like human rights, democrcy, one party domination... finally, national issues quickly became international business. among these criticizes, some are honest but some are fake. With these pressures, nevertheless, China has changed even if it is slowly. During these days we can explore the tension on the relationship between China and Australia due to several issues. however, this article makes me happy to see the growth of China. the reason is that China learned to how to communicate to the world. although China would like to participate into the multilateral issue, it does not mean its compromise on other issues. As Chiese ambassador stated that a multilateral issue and the present difficulties are two different things. in other words, China still insists its own right on national sovereignty. what I trying to say is that every country has an obligation to build up a peaceful and mutual respect and understanding world. we can hold our own right, we respect each other, and we live together in one world.
  • anonymous on 25 Aug 09
     
    Rudd's proposal of an Asia Pacific Community akin to the European Union is a ridiculous idea. There already exists several organisations in the region (ASEAN, APEC, ASEAN + 3, etc.) which serve to achieve exactly which Rudd proposes an Asia Pacific Community will achieve. Not only is Rudd participating in "megaphone diplomacy" which will likely undermine Australia's relationship with many Asian countries but next to no thought has gone into how this organisation will operate or even what countries will be included.
Yair Frid

YouTube - Food Fight - 0 views

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Food nationalism history war

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  • xinning ji on 24 Aug 09
     
    it is a quite funny animation. Also, in an interesting way, it uses symbolic languages to represent the modern world, pop culture and globalization. In my point of view, there is a global war in which sushi represents Asia and hanburg and chips play as West. they fight with each other in order to prove which one is more dominant and powerful.
  • Yair Frid on 25 Aug 09
     
    Its the recent history of war:Go here to see which country is represented by which food, its quite cool http://www.touristpictures.com/foodfight/cheat.htm
xinning ji

Disney is Unfaithful: 1/4/09 - 1/11/09 - 0 views

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  • Ironically Mickey Mouse, a global symbol of American capitalism, will don a new Mao-inspired outfit in Hong Kong
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 24 Aug 09
       
      when one culture accesses into another culture, it is no long the original culture. Rather, the culture is loclized and has tried to serve for local people.
xinning ji

Globalization - 0 views

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  • Multinational corporations manufacture products in many countries and sell to consumers around the world. Money, technology and raw materials move ever more swiftly across national borders.
  • The term globalization encompasses a range of social, political, and economic changes. Within the section Defining Globalization, we provide an introduction to the key debates on this issue. The materials look at the main features of globalization, asking what is new, what drives the process, how it changes politics, and how it affects global institutions like the UN.
  • Cases of Globalization explore the various manifestations of interconnectedness in the world, noting how globalization affects real people and places.
    • xinning ji
      xinning ji on 24 Aug 09
       
      the influence of globalization could be either beneficial or harmful. on the one hand, through the Internet, we view the world, travel to the world, and experice the world. on the other hand, however, like the image on the left hand side, the improvement of technology made a gap between rich and poor bigger and bigger. even though developed countries try to help developing countries, such as Africa, the unequal distince between each other is obvious and hard to reach in a fair position because the poor nations are far more behind the rich.
Yair Frid

YouTube - Whopper Virgin Documentary (Full) - 0 views

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Globalisation multicultural cool video

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  • Yair Frid on 24 Aug 09
     
    Very interesting small documentary.
Andrew Ooi

Village celebrates record lotto win - Yahoo!7 News - 0 views

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lotto lottery

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  • sold there produced the richest jackpot in European lottery history
  • The last time the thrice-weekly SuperEnalotto paid out was on January 31
Andrew Ooi

Al Jazeera English - Asia-Pacific - Malaysia blocks controversial blog - 0 views

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internet censorship malaysia

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  • first official clampdown on a local site
  • went against the government's promise not to censor the internet.
  • Andrew Ooi on 23 Aug 09
     
    Malaysia first official clampdown on a local site
  • Andrew Ooi on 23 Aug 09
     
    first official clampdown on a local site
Christoph Zed

The Axis of Honour: Honour, Modernity, and al Qaeda « The Sensible Jew - 0 views

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globalisation terrorism al qaeda values society capitalism pluralism secularisation colonialism moral honor

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  • So many scholars and commentators attribute suicide terrorism to such factors as poverty, foreign occupation, or religion, among many other things.
  • Over the past two hundred years, there has been a global, though highly uneven, shift within the values systems of various societies.
  • One particularly profound transformation has been the relegation of one’s religion to the private sphere, as a matter of purely personal choice.
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  • So societies that have embraced modernity, have effectively “privatised” religion. Indeed capitalism has been the driving force behind secularism because it required the dismantling of the communalist society.
  • Replacing the old communalism is heterogeneity and pluralism. These have eroded not only religious monopolies, but their centrality in various societies. The end result of this is a society’s secularisation.
  • Globalisation, in which western technological and cultural products predominate, is often framed as a form of colonialism.
  • Ironically, the rise of transnational Islamist terrorism is also a product of globalisation.
  • As the power of the nation state diminishes, religious ideology’s mobility allows it to permeate shifting borders.
  • The current face of modernity is therefore ideally suited to –  and an ideal breeding ground for – the creation of suicide terrorist groups.
  • In order to fortify the in group, moral strictures must become ever more rigorous, while condemnation of transgression must become ever more vociferous – and violent, thus intensifying the demarcation between “good” and “bad”.
  • terrorism implies a crisis of legitimacy
  • But can we say that such a crisis of legitimacy applies to transnational terrorists such as al Qaeda?
  • modernity is an attempt to destroy community and communalism…, all those forces which created identity and authority
  • such threats to communalism result in feelings of humiliation amongst those who do not benefit from the new order.
  • humiliation therefore “links the concepts of honor and human rights in an enlightening way, providing a framework both for ideologies and for the transition between them.”
  • Scott Atran identifies the primacy of honour throughout Arab societies, noting that the Arab perception of being humiliated by outsiders is a prime motivator for suicide attacks.
  • There emerges from the collective sense of humiliation something of an obligation to demonstrate outrage and embark on actions – even if they have little chance of success – in order to avenge honour. Martyrdom is one such example.
  • Beit-Hallahmi writes, that under such circumstances, “contemporary martyrdom can be viewed as an uprising against the end of history and the final triumph of liberal capitalism.”
Isabella Han

Chinese Popular Culture - 0 views

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  • Isabella Han on 23 Aug 09
     
    this is a very interesting websit! hope you enjoy it^^
Lucy Rechnitzer

BBC NEWS | Technology | Tech giants unite against Google - 0 views

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  • Tech giants unite against Google By Maggie Shiels Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley Not everyone in the coalition wants the deal blocked, some want revisions Three technology heavyweights are joining a coalition to fight Google's attempt to create what could be the world's largest virtual library.Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo will sign up to the Open Book Alliance being spearheaded by the Internet Archive. They oppose a legal settlement that could make Google the main source for many online works. "Google is trying to monopolise the library system," the Internet Archive's founder Brewster Kahle told BBC News.
  • Critics have claimed the settlement will transform the future of the book industry and of public access to the cultural heritage of mankind embodied in books. The Internet Archive scans around 1000 books a day at 10 cents a page "The techniques we have built up since the enlightenment of having open access, public support for libraries, lots of different organisational structures, lots of distributed ownership of books that can be exchanged, resold and repackaged in different ways - all of that is being thrown out in this particular approach," warned Mr Kahle. The non-profit Internet Archive has long been a vocal opponent of this agreement. It is also in the business of scanning books and has digitised over half a million of them to date. All are available free. As the 4 September deadline approaches, the number of groups and organisations voicing their opposition is growing. But with three of the world's best-known technology companies joining the chorus, the Open Book Alliance can expect to make headlines the world over.
  • In its defence, Google has argued that the deal brings great benefits to authors and will make millions of out-of-print books widely available online and in libraries. In a statement, the company said: "The Google Books settlement is injecting more competition into the digital books space, so it's understandable why our competitors might fight hard to prevent more competition."
Christoph Zed

Heathrow Terminal Five's new writer Alain de Botton reveals airport secrets | Mail Online - 0 views

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globalisation tourism travel

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  • De Botton describes them as ‘imaginative centres of our civilisation
  • an environment overflowing with inspiration
  • You start to see characters here that you would never understand as a passenger because you’re rushing through.'
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  • t's the opposite of routine, the opposite of domestic.
Rika Ninomiya

QANTAS eyes Malaysia | The Australian - 0 views

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globalization cultural imperialism hybridization Qantas

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  • QANTAS may pursue Malaysia Airlines following the demise of the Australian carrier's $8 billion merger plans with British Airways.
  • Qantas had wanted majority ownership in the deal, reflecting its bigger market value, but BA was not prepared to become a junior partner.
  • faced a number of significant hurdles
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  • Malaysia Airlines, run by savvy ex-petroleum industry executive Idris Jala, appeared the most likely partnership option in Asia
  • merger with Singapore Airlines, often touted as a good match, was unlikely because of questions of control and potential competition issues
  • He believed another possibility often raised, Cathay Pacific, was also unlikely, as were Thai Airways, Garuda, Philippine Airlines and the Chinese carriers.
  • However, he did not rule out a possible partnership with another European carrier or Japan Airlines in the longer term.
  • Rika Ninomiya on 22 Aug 09
     
    The article talks about Qantas's pursue of Malaysian Airline and other foreign airlines to merge with them. By merging with other major airline, Qantas is hoping to operate in more places which would help increase their market share in the world.
Rika Ninomiya

AdelaideNow... Be ready for 'second wave swine flu' - 0 views

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globalization multilateralism swineflue

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      Rika Ninomiya on 22 Aug 09
       
      With the growth of communication technologies, information like this can be spread around the world in no time which allows multiple countries working in correct on this issue - Multilateralism.
  • We need to be prepared for whatever surprises this capricious new virus delivers next... constant random mutation is the survival mechanism of the microbial world
  • WORLD Health Organization chief Margaret Chan today urged governments to prepare for a likely second wave of swine flu cases, cautioning they will face tough decisions on how to dispense vaccines.
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  • governments around the world
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