(August 11, 2016 at 11:33 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: It's not about race. I'm from the West myself and this is about geography and cultures anyway. This thread isn't about the west though, and he came and started talking about it out of nowhere, as if arguing with someone, except no one even mentioned the west. You see, he was arguing against a straw man. He was basically off-topic.
The world is connected; and today with internet we became quite the same.
You have me: I'm a Middle Eastern human, born and raised in that region. Never got out BTW.
What hits Hollywood hits us.
Some people here care about the Kardashians.
Did you see this Egyptian idiot, who almost had an orgasm because Steven Segal & Antonio Banderas agreed to attend his show?
The east/west prespective belonged to Marx and Lenin. They saw the world as such; I respect their views but to rule, one MUST rise above the barrier of racism that haunts the prespective.
Give me a country, and I'll tell you how they're doing on terms of economy and military stength; the more they ignore the barrier and rise above it, the more they would become a superpower.
-BTW if the west began to lock its borders and advocate the barrier; then expect the west's fall. Which many people think is now !!!-
Following a logical path of debate will always throw you in this tight spot. It's not the person debating; it's the whole system.
Bottom line is, if a lady stripped in Brazil, it will affect men in Yemen; that's how small our world became today. Blessings of the internet.
No us and them anymore. Rome is long gone, so as Muslim empire. All what remains is some ruins
