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Psychological Status: Patient, depressed and multi-persona-conflicted.
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BriefWord[6]:
The Weak Arab World's Media Control.
The Arab World is one of the most controversial region in the world to discuss socially, culturally, historically, economically, governmentally, and for most religiously. It's hard to determine the main reason of its weakness or its fanatical reactions to the West, toward certain topics, such as, History of Islam, Islamic Sharia, Women Rights, Tribalism and Jihad. The West seems always to misunderstand The Arab World, because the western Media tends to view their self-lifestyle, ideology and so on as the best in the World unequally. Meanwhile, western citizens become unaware of the cultural differences between them and the Arab World. Therefore, we see such misunderstandings or even a really bad judgmental behavior within. The West might know about The Arabic Islamic culture, the problem is they always try to compare what Arabs believe in to what they believe in, with an advantage or a prejudgmental conclusion, which is their belief is the right one, "I'm right You're Wrong"
For example, for an American man, who lived all his life under Media control, he wouldn't even bother knowing about others' cultures by himself and goolging it. Instead, he will just make judgments, which are already made indirectly by the Media and installed in his way of thinking. He will always have that Media-mentality within him, which says " I'm the best, I'm from the land of freedom, of opportunity". According to that thinking, Why should he bother searching for others if he is the best! Or even bother to know "Where The Middle East is located at?".
However, although The West Elite Class people are controlling the minds of their citizens, the Arab World Elite Class people are making the situation even worse. The Arab Elites Media Control on its people recently is falling apart due to the advanced technology developments. i.e Satellite Channels, internet, and so on. However, in the past, by past it's meant more than 70 years of generations, The Arabic Media Control was so much strong, and very monopolizing the exchanging of information between in and out of their world. Within only the last 70 years approximately not exactly, the Arabic people mentalities were shaped to fit ideas such as Nationalism and its all practices such as Flags, National Anthems, Citizenship, Praising One's History and perfecting it, or even making it a pure history full of glory and angelic leaders. Anyhow, Nationalism was achieved somehow easily among Arabs unlike The Democracy bush is trying to spread among them. Nationalism was succeeded only because it's an advanced form of Tribalism, otherwise it would fail shortly like Communism did in Yemen or any part of the Arab World.
Although the Arab citizens got their share of The Elite class Media control's influences, Arab citizens tend to be more knowledgeable about the West, and its culture. For Example, Many Arabs listen to western music, or watch westren movies, or even read western novels and historic books [translated or English written ones]. Some might be wondering and confused, how is this happening while the Arab Elite Class Media Control was/is an iron fist?.
The Arab Media control lets its people know about others but hasn't let them know about themselves, means they didn't allow anyone to think of or doubt about their history, leadership, or even question a social issue directly to the policy maker. It's also because that the Arabs are on the bottom, and the West is on the top, like The Pyramid, the bottom ones tend to look up to reach or to learn from the top. The top drops knowledge to the bottom, and doesn't really get directly any knowledge from the bottom. However the top only adopts and imports labors and brains from the bottom ones and don't give back what they take of materialistic benefits or knowledge, simply it's like Imperialism or any other term that fits the same ideology.
Therefore, we see the Arab World itself is divided into People Against its elite class, People against the West, and People against both(the elite and the west). The last group currently is defined as Terrorists, or it can be something else in the future. This ideological-storm is going to last years before it ends up with a better future for the Arab World. The Arab World won't remain misunderstood by the West for long, The name Arab World will be changed to Islamic world sooner or later, The Islamophobia, which the West is infected with, will be treated with a better understanding, the side effect of Terrorism seems not bad somehow. Unfortunately, its direct effect is just a tragedy and a huge ideological disorder, which needs an order.
I am not giving a solution to the controversially region, but I hate to stop writing now with a clueless solution, an empty jar full of dirty air. I am not expecting an answer or a solution from any one because it will lead only to another messy world of arguments and misunderstandings. Therefore, I will stay alone thinking more about us."--[x]
Edited by [x] for forgetting to spell-check!
Note: This is the longest post I published so far and It's not my type, because most readers won't read something long because I always think they are like me, bad readers. This post might be reviewed later, to reach its perfect form, all the information and statements written by me, and made according to my own observations and thinking, I am not a reader, I'm only an observer. Some Read, and Others See. And, Sorry I didn't finish writing it, it looks incomplete somehow but I tried to stop and I did. Briefword[6] isn't brief at all.
For example, for an American man, who lived all his life under Media control, he wouldn't even bother knowing about others' cultures by himself and goolging it. Instead, he will just make judgments, which are already made indirectly by the Media and installed in his way of thinking. He will always have that Media-mentality within him, which says " I'm the best, I'm from the land of freedom, of opportunity". According to that thinking, Why should he bother searching for others if he is the best! Or even bother to know "Where The Middle East is located at?".
However, although The West Elite Class people are controlling the minds of their citizens, the Arab World Elite Class people are making the situation even worse. The Arab Elites Media Control on its people recently is falling apart due to the advanced technology developments. i.e Satellite Channels, internet, and so on. However, in the past, by past it's meant more than 70 years of generations, The Arabic Media Control was so much strong, and very monopolizing the exchanging of information between in and out of their world. Within only the last 70 years approximately not exactly, the Arabic people mentalities were shaped to fit ideas such as Nationalism and its all practices such as Flags, National Anthems, Citizenship, Praising One's History and perfecting it, or even making it a pure history full of glory and angelic leaders. Anyhow, Nationalism was achieved somehow easily among Arabs unlike The Democracy bush is trying to spread among them. Nationalism was succeeded only because it's an advanced form of Tribalism, otherwise it would fail shortly like Communism did in Yemen or any part of the Arab World.
Although the Arab citizens got their share of The Elite class Media control's influences, Arab citizens tend to be more knowledgeable about the West, and its culture. For Example, Many Arabs listen to western music, or watch westren movies, or even read western novels and historic books [translated or English written ones]. Some might be wondering and confused, how is this happening while the Arab Elite Class Media Control was/is an iron fist?.
The Arab Media control lets its people know about others but hasn't let them know about themselves, means they didn't allow anyone to think of or doubt about their history, leadership, or even question a social issue directly to the policy maker. It's also because that the Arabs are on the bottom, and the West is on the top, like The Pyramid, the bottom ones tend to look up to reach or to learn from the top. The top drops knowledge to the bottom, and doesn't really get directly any knowledge from the bottom. However the top only adopts and imports labors and brains from the bottom ones and don't give back what they take of materialistic benefits or knowledge, simply it's like Imperialism or any other term that fits the same ideology.
Therefore, we see the Arab World itself is divided into People Against its elite class, People against the West, and People against both(the elite and the west). The last group currently is defined as Terrorists, or it can be something else in the future. This ideological-storm is going to last years before it ends up with a better future for the Arab World. The Arab World won't remain misunderstood by the West for long, The name Arab World will be changed to Islamic world sooner or later, The Islamophobia, which the West is infected with, will be treated with a better understanding, the side effect of Terrorism seems not bad somehow. Unfortunately, its direct effect is just a tragedy and a huge ideological disorder, which needs an order.
I am not giving a solution to the controversially region, but I hate to stop writing now with a clueless solution, an empty jar full of dirty air. I am not expecting an answer or a solution from any one because it will lead only to another messy world of arguments and misunderstandings. Therefore, I will stay alone thinking more about us."--[x]
Edited by [x] for forgetting to spell-check!
Note: This is the longest post I published so far and It's not my type, because most readers won't read something long because I always think they are like me, bad readers. This post might be reviewed later, to reach its perfect form, all the information and statements written by me, and made according to my own observations and thinking, I am not a reader, I'm only an observer. Some Read, and Others See. And, Sorry I didn't finish writing it, it looks incomplete somehow but I tried to stop and I did. Briefword[6] isn't brief at all.
4 comments:
Hi Nezitic,
I usually don't reply to blogs discussing the Arab/Islamic world, but i thought that i should bring to your attention the fact that 70 years ago all the arab countries/regions were under foreign rule if not direct rule by proxy. So you can't possibly blame an arab ruler for their media awareness if there wasn't one? before that the Turks ruled the Arab world on religious basis as was the case for the previous 1400 years but they were the only ones to abuse their authority to an extent that they deprived all non-turks the right to read/study and treated them as second class citizens which is why the arabs/kurds/armenians and others in the region are so behind.
And when the turks lost in the various wars before the first world war they left the arab world with and illiterate/unarmed population which made
them easy hunt for the europeans. And i assume you know the rest?
As for media awareness the mideast has always been a boiling pot for differnet cultures not because of their curiosity but their main source of income was trade and they were a buffer region between the
east and west (europe-asia) which required them to be more aware og their neighbours than others.
First, Introduce yourself, This way I can reply to you easily. Second, Most of your reply is about Turks and that's even before 85years ago. What I meant by Arabic Elite Media Control is the use of power to brainwash its people to fit a new ideology. As I mentioned I was talking about Nationalism specifically within the last 70years, when countries were born such as Iraq, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria,UAE, and so on,that was the era when this Ideology started to take in shap and influenced arabs and rooted them only to bordered lands and left them divided not united unfortunately these divisions among them seemed Ok to them! Because The Elite Power did make it look Ok, otherwise it was not, As I said the number 70years is just approximate, not exact.
I didn't blame an arab ruler but i even blamed both west and arabs elites. And who said the turks left the region! they were kicked out by who? Ask Lawrance of Arabia he might answer.
Yes they can be aware of both east and west because of their geo-economical location, But i didn't go through how they became aware of the west or east. To Be honest, they weren't really aware of the strength and advancement of the west until they saw The Ottman empire falling down, because most arabs didn't have good connection to the outside world.
You are saying arabs kurds and son are so behind because of the turks left them like that, well for 70years they couldn't be knowledgeable!, with all that oil they couldn't build something powerful or even useful!, I wonder how Japanese could fall, stand up and fall again and reach to where they are now. I don't want to go offtopic, and hence I haven't slept for 24hours now...
No Bedtime's quote Tonight.
Goodnight Dear Readers.
[x]
Can I reply Later to you guys!, because I see the angel of sleep coming to me now. she's saying to me " Sleep Fat-banana ugly-table!" I know doesn't make sense because i am the only one who understands her lol..goodnight.
I couldn't agree more with u <-- I only said this to avoid writing a long reply to your long comment hehe, sorry. I actually agree but can't add more to what u said
By the way, Are you indirectly asking me to buy this book? lol That's if I read it!
Ps; there is a book called Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
by Jack G. Shaheen
Salam--[x]
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