Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story

Coming from Saudi Arabia the world most closed and conservative country, where women and men can not talk to each other unless they are blood related. I had the same idea of her about the outside world. Which was knowing about foreign western countries and judging them from what I read or see on the TV  or internet.

luckily, I got the chance to see the world in England, US, and Canada  by visiting these countries. I was amazed how narrow and closed minded and far form the full picture in my mind. the picture was bunch of naked women and guys hitting on them and its so easy to have sexual relationships with a huge alcoholic environment evolved in everything. although the drinking part was partially true, but it was still far from what I thought about the reality.

After seeing people working and studying at the same time fighting to get a better life standards, driven by gaols and motivation; while women are well dressed and covered most of the times, had me think what to believe and what not to believe so easily.

matter of fact I stopped watching T.V and shows and reading worthless news papers or watching news on television. The reason behind my choice was what grantee I have that is true?

Racial profilinig

In one of the classes we discussed the issue of racial profiling in small groups. we shared Ideas and thoughts about the issue, and we found that a hug misconception that existed in our minds. For example a white girl in my group said ” black people are better at playing basketball”. She really believed that until I told her I’m Black and I’m very bad at basketball. She was shocked because that was here believes just got destroyed by the fact I’m black and I cant play basketball well. An other example was all Asian are short. I always thought that until I saw Yao Mings, the Chinese basket ball player that can dunk without jumping because of his height.

Moreover, I face a lot of incidents day to day when people walking late at night and when they see me they look scared and try to avoid eye contact; some even stop laughing have a serious face. I don’t blame them because the movies and the shows, show black people as either gang related or some crime so people tend to be scared from black people specially at late nights time.

Airstrikes, Beheadings, Ebola,and Our Common [In]Humanity

It’s really sad to see countries helping each other for the world safety, while other countries initiate wars on other countries just for economic resources. Dr. Charles Quist-Adade as always shows the hidden truth behind the fact and decodes excuses for human behaviours to get to the real reason behind what is happening in the world. Furthermore, I agree with Dr.Charles Quist-Adade about the fact this war is not for peace, it’s more about oil and strategic power geographic location that the area has and how the US and other participating countries would benefit from it if they can control it.
It started with supporting rebellions against Bashar Alasad, and now those same rebellions are ISIS or ISIL now are called terrorist and need to be dealt with.
Have anyone noticed gas prices dropped suddenly recently, or anybody knows why/how is that happening? The prices dropped because ISIS is selling oil so cheap almost free which caused the price to drop down in the rest of the world. This is why countries are participating in the war while others are helping humanity by fighting Ebola from spreading. Dr. Charles Quist-Adade said its Humanity VS Inhumanity, Couldn’t have said it better.

Thanksgiving: Multiple perspctives

I wasn’t surprised at all because I knew about the sad story before; however, it was really good to know more details about the story of the New World. What Christopher Columbus did is repeating history as I’m sure you all have heard the quote “history repeats itself”. In case you are wondering why Native people In Canada have a different better health care system than the one you have, you should know the answer by now.  I still have a question in my mind; although, we live in the equal right and humanity century of revolutionary thinking, does natives has equal rights as other Canadians?

I’m sure you are wondering why is it a holiday as me by now?!

It’s obvious to me that whoever wins the war get to right the books, and its clearly the people who control the power will never  give it away or share it. Rule number one: in order to control people you need to their knowledge.  Most of us or 90% don’t know the truth. Do you think it’s a coincidence?

Thank you for reading and hope you enjoyed it.

Sexual and Gender Relations

Sexual objectification is widely common between men; the video opened my eyes and recalled a lot of events where this have actually happened and probably will happen again. Guys usually see girls like sex objects in everywhere, places like, malls, bars, nightclubs, streets, and even more. I have noticed that my friends do that all the time and usually they judge by the outfit. Most men don’t realize that it is actually hard to hide some part of the body such as big chest and big hips. Instead, they think it’s an invitation to make some kind of excuse to hit on her and simply say she is asking for it!

Sexual objectification was one of the reasons I became a feminist by heart. I’m not a fan of make up for example, or spending too much time on hair and nails just to look like the model on the cover magazine. In contrast, I’m more interested in curvy totally opposite of the girls image on magazines

Second, video I watched is that women take too much time to get ready to leave the house; as  Tracey Spicer said ”Its bullshit”. In my opinion women should not be judge from there outside shell instead they should be valuable for their contribution to this world. Now why women like putting make up while the beauty will not last? Who said women look ugly without make up?

Indeed, all the women should be happy about their looks whether they are chubby, curvy skinny, and fit because beauty is in the eyes of its beholders. No matter what you look like someone will always find you beautiful smart and desirable.

Debunking the ‘Third World Myth

After seeing the data and the truth behind it, I think I will have a problem with teachers from now on. While I’m studying business and noticing the huge misconception in the books about the world is really weird. As questions starting to rise in my head such as; why the data is hidden from the public, or why they can’t public the data so that everyone can use it? It’s like someone wants us to be ignorant somehow, so that they can control us! I have seen politics use that method, keeping the truth hidden and show it to gain creditability or win votes in the election season. It’s like guiding a troop of sheep, manipulating data to serve their own purposes.  I think that’s what Hans Rosling was trying to say. Was it a hidden message to the public?

The Myth of the Self-made Millionaire

The article is very interesting in terms of revealing the misconceptions of governments’ role in our society. It was written in a way that grabs the reader’s attention by providing relative information and empirical data. When I read the article I started to see how important the role of the government in our society; matter of fact the government is the key factor in a nation revival and growth. I started to see the taxes worth and how it’s distributed in our lives. We don’t pay much compared to international students because the government pays a huge part of our tuitions. Also, the way government supports businesses from other competitors   just so we can have variety of choices and range of prices was mind shocking to me. In addition, all the wealthy people in the world got helped by their governments’ once throughout their career. Indeed, my way of looking at government’s rules and regulation has changed, however of course I will still question their action and take nothing for granted.