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Topic History of: I'm very upset about Tunisia
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JK2006 |
14 percent unemployment. Says it all really, doesn't it? Yet it's such a wonderful country and Tunisians are so nice. I shall be there again this summer unless something very nasty happens. |
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veritas |
interesting reading here about Tunisia and the corruption of the first family and their relatives strangling foreign investment.
www.juancole.com/
Wikileaks again revealed to the outside world... |
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In The Know |
JK2006 wrote:
The problem is very simple and increasingly obvious. Young Arabs are getting better and better educated (a good thing) but with less and less opportunity for adult employment - an explosion was destined.
I met a young man in Morocco who was scavenging for rubbish to add to his cart; I asked directions in French (before realizing he was unlikely to know) and he replied in perfect English. We spoke for about ten minutes; he was 22, had attended college but there was no decent work available. He'd learned English because he loved our culture, music and movies. He was not a fundamentalist or a great believer. He had no desire to revolt or rebel; was content being penniless and dirty; felt he and his family lived in comfort (though he did ask for a donation which I happily gave him).
And his hero in the world?
Michael Jackson, of course. Who else?
The western culture is increasingly desired by others - who think we have freedom (and to a certain extent we do) - but they are unaware of the sub-control which in its own way is just as controlling as the police states / dictatorships where they live.
Wouldn't it have been better - for millions of people - if, when we had the biggest demonstration of all time in the UK (against the Iraq invasion), we had overthrown B-Liar and New Lie-Bour ? |
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JK2006 |
The problem is very simple and increasingly obvious. Young Arabs are getting better and better educated (a good thing) but with less and less opportunity for adult employment - an explosion was destined.
I met a young man in Morocco who was scavenging for rubbish to add to his cart; I asked directions in French (before realizing he was unlikely to know) and he replied in perfect English. We spoke for about ten minutes; he was 22, had attended college but there was no decent work available. He'd learned English because he loved our culture, music and movies. He was not a fundamentalist or a great believer. He had no desire to revolt or rebel; was content being penniless and dirty; felt he and his family lived in comfort (though he did ask for a donation which I happily gave him).
And his hero in the world?
Michael Jackson, of course. Who else? |
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Angel |
And to think they filmed Star Wars there. Whatever next? |
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