- Mar 2020
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Indeed, Asian ambition is cast as an inherent evil. Blame, not praise, abounds. Though predominantly white school administrators, such as district superintendents and principals, design a school’s curricula, white fury is directed at Asian students for taking full advantage of it
As someone that grew up in a public school system and the trenches of a large high school it is shocking some of the statements that can be made about people regardless of what their race is. The asian population though was always a group of outcasts it seemed and were in fact the smartest out there. On a global scale as well the Asian governments get a lot more flak than what we give others and constantly attack and poke fun at them for their work and culture
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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It was the introduction of sugar slavery in the New World that changed everything. “The true Age of Sugar had begun — and it was doing more to reshape the world than any ruler, empire or war had ever done,” Marc Aronson and Marina Budhos write in their 2010 book, “Sugar Changed the World.” Over the four centuries that followed Columbus’s arrival, on the mainlands of Central and South America in Mexico, Guyana and Brazil as well as on the sugar islands of the West Indies — Cuba, Barbados and Jamaica, among others — countless indigenous lives were destroyed and nearly 11 million Africans were enslaved, just counting those who survived the Middle Passage.
I think a big part of the world no longer thinks about the history of sugar. I mean why would we its sugar everyone loves it. I know when I eat some sugar-product like a chocolate bar its not in the back of my mind the historical impact it has had. I barely really learned about it as most history classes throughout the Public school system only talk about the impact on American soil and brush over the sugar trade.
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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The problem with the logo map, however, is that it isn’t right. Its shape does not match the country’s legal borders
People love to forget about Hawaii and Alaska, and especially the territories that we have. Even as a history and Global politics major I do not know all the territories that America has, and partially the media and people producing maps are to blame as we are leaving people who's lives are impacted by our actions and have helped our economy in ways are being forgotten.
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He changed it so that the Japanese squadrons had bombed not the “island of Oahu”, but the “American island of Oahu”. Damage there, Roosevelt continued, had been done to “American naval and military forces”, and “very many American lives” had been lost.
This just shows how much on an influencial leader that Roosevelt was to the American public. This simple change is so powerful as rather than targeting a small population as the victims of this horrible attack, it shows the unity behind the whole nation as an attack on one state is an attack on all and it was the American population that was attacked and not just a naval base in Hawaii.
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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he hospitals are nowhere near sophisticated enough to offer bone-marrow transplants, she said, and apart from the inaugural “prayers” offered at the sites of construction, nothing new had sprung up.
It is a shame that we still have issues of these corrupt politicians saying things and not doing them. It is one thing for say they will do something and not follow through with it, but to lie on the global scale about how great of a job he has done meanwhile very little has actually been done to better the life of his people
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www.esquire.com www.esquire.com
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All other slum dwellers, when the bank account permits it, can move out of the slum and vanish altogether from the eye of persecution. No Negro in this country has ever made that much money and it will be a long time before any Negro does.
It is very upsetting to see the saying "when the bank permits it" as it is a painful reminder that despite how we were supposed to be the land of the free people have always struggled to make a better living for themselves just because of the color of their skin. Times have gotten better sure but we still see issues of racially targeted poverty today so not much has changed since back then
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n the upper house of the Parliament, a two-thirds majority of members voted to dissolve Kashmir’s last legal right to self-determination and protection, and in the lower house—the Lok Sabha—a better than 5:1 majority of India’s popularly elected representatives endorsed the move. The rest applauded the government for having the courage to take such a risk. There was a sinister grin on the face of the Parliamentarians. It wasn’t the smile of pride or satisfaction that one sees on the face of a patriot after doing something for the nation. It was the sadistic grin that emerges after you’ve humiliated a people.
This issue here reminds me of the reasons the Americans revolted the British Monarch in the first place. They felt their rights being stripped away and had no representation during government choices. The Kashmir deserve better treatment and should be allowed to follow their culture
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www.migrationpolicy.org www.migrationpolicy.org
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The U.S.-Mexico border only has fencing over one-third of its 1,969-mile length. Even the heavily fortified Israeli wall in the West Bank is only two-thirds finished. A second reason that walls are not effective is that many unauthorized movements, particularly those of terrorists or smugglers, do not happen between crossing points.
The wall takes too much time, resources, and tax money to fund and after all this time it still is not even close to being done. If illegal immigration and illegal immigrants is an issue the U.S needs to come out with a plan that does not evolve throwing money at a wall but to other programs to help the immigrants
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The reality is that various Chinese kingdoms built multiple walls—many of which have been lost to history—over a 1,500-year period to prevent Mongol raids. The evidence of the oldest walls, said to have been built in 220 BCE, is thin: a single vague mention of fortifications in a historical text written more than 100 years after the fact. If a wall was built 2,000 years ago, no evidence of it remains today.
One of the biggest arguments people who want a wall that I have heard is that it worked for the Chinese way back when, however history shows that it only slowed down the raids and was still climbable and raidable by the Mongols. If a giant stone wall did not work back in 220 BCE why would a chainmail fence work in 2020?
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In the most violent pockets of Central America, the United Nations says, the danger is like living in a war zone.
If the United Nations is saying that living here is like a war zone, why are they not doing more to help the people? The United Nations has tons of resources to help major countries and the countries where the media wants but not the countries that could really use the help.
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Across Latin America, a murder epidemic is underway. Most years, more than 100,000 people are killed, largely young men on the periphery of broken societies, where gangs and cartels sometimes take the place of the state.
if it was not for this article and homework assignment, I would probably never of known about these people being killed. It makes you wonder how many more crazy news stories are being ignored by the mass media.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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The lines they helped draw, based in large part on the belief that the presence of blacks and other minorities would undermine property values, altered what would happen in these communities for years to come.
Its really disheartening to hear that good people have been forced into poverty and racial prejudice years down the line from something that has happened 90 years ago. Rather than dealing with foreign issues that only create more problems for us and the troops the American government should be doing what it can to help its own populations that it cursed in the beginning.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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In 2018, the statewide vote was about evenly divided, but Democrats again secured only three seats.
This shows the real issue with Gerrymandering. It is a process, along with the electoral college, that although still works to give smaller populated states power it faces issues on a state-wide level as there can be too much power given and taken away. The district borders should try to be as evenly split it just is a shame it is really hard to do it/ get good results out of it.
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Partisan gerrymandering is almost as old as the nation, and both parties have used it. But in recent years, as Republicans captured state legislatures around the country, they have been the primary beneficiaries. Aided by sophisticated software, they have drawn oddly shaped voting districts to favor their party’s candidates.
when looking at things like this it is no surprise that the elections we're having are starting to lean towards the Republican party, especially when for the most part the general American population leans more Democratic.
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- Feb 2020
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www.thenation.com www.thenation.com
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When we got out of the truck, the air smelled of burning rubber, manure, and sulfur. With each step, I sank into the ground, as if being swallowed by a quicksand of garbage.
it is new stories like this that need to be covered and spoken about more on the bigger news cites, if we do not make this knowledge more public no one is able to get anythign done about it
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Duallo wants that same political influence for waste pickers, too. They deserve it: Recycling is labor-intensive work that requires specialized knowledge of materials. And the materials they recycle are foundational to the manufacturing sector in Senegal
I never actually thought about how specialized the recycling industry is. It is pretty cool and eye opening to hear the inside of the recycling industry, as it is so important to our planets future.
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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One recent government study estimated that China’s labor force could lose 100 million people from 2020 to 2035, then another 100 million from 2035 to 2050
China's economy, while being one of the strongest in the world, is still only rising and getting adjusted to its newfound influence and fortune. By losing this many people in the work force and not having a backup will cause a huge dip in the economy not only for China, but for the whole global market.
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In 1984, the government allowed rural couples whose first child was a girl to have a second child, and there were other exceptions for ethnic minorities.
this is a huge step for China socially back then, especially for the rural communities. In a society focused on males providing for their family, having only a girl child hurts the families future as society would not let the girl provide for her family like the boy would
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- Jan 2020
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crisisofenclosure.com crisisofenclosure.com
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The resulting colour-corrected ‘photograph’, adjusted to show the United States rather than Africa, is now one of the most accessed images on the digital photo archive Flickr, with over five million downloads.
I wonder why this picture didn’t have the same culture impact like the blue marble image did, it is an even more important picture that although has 5 million downloads, that’s still small for a planet with a population in the billions
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At the time it was published, many people believed that seeing Blue Marble changed their lives. The poet Archibald MacLeish recalled that for the first time people saw the Earth as a whole, ‘whole and round and beautiful and small’. Some found spiritual and environmental lessons in viewing the planet as if from the place of a god
This passage shows the change in what is fascinating and powerful to the modern person. Back then a simple grainy picture of the Earth was enough to change someone spiritually, whereas today there are extremely high definition photos of not only out planet , but of other planets which should have a larger effect on us.
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