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There is ordinary ignorance which is willing to learn and aggressive ignorance that resists correction. How aggressive ignorance that militates against psychology and sociology is a tool of conmen.

Almost everyone around the world eventually discovers that food brings people together and apart. Bread and rice start medieval peasant riots, GMO’s strain or heal international relations, family business for many people happens around the table, and in some countries chocolate may win a girl’s affections for a day. In Charlottesville, VA, the Saturday morning City Market clearly brings people together, but an interview with a local honey merchant shows that homegrown food can form communal relationships while also setting people apart from each other within that community.

I am saddened at how little is understood about the process of dealing with incoming refugees and asylum seekers, and how much fear and mistrust surrounds their existence. I work for a UK company called Phoenix Community Care, a not for profit company working with people in need.

In Ancient Athens, the establishment of the world’s first democracy began with Solon’s drafting of a constitution which legislated a law known as “the shaking off of burdens”, the ending of Draconian laws of debt slavery.Today Greece is again mired in a economic and moral crisis not unlike that which faced the ancient city-state of Athens in 594 B.C.E. If you have the desire to see an economic recovery rather than a repeat great depression or world war, it would benefit you to study economic history from an ethical perspective and consider the parallels between our present global economic crisis and the ancient economic crisis in Athens. Then as now, Athenians were oppressed by heavy debt. Solon came up with a solution: a “shaking off of burdens”, his name for a debt cancellation that established the first democracy in history.

Ukraine has many people working abroad. The image of Ukraine by many foreigners is tarnished and negative. Tourism in 2012 will change the image of Ukraine in the eyes of the world.

Broadly speaking, Pakistanis can be divided into ‘Urdu-wallahs’ i.e. those who speak their local language, wear local costume and are practicing Muslims, and ‘English-wallahs’, i.e. those who speak English, went overseas to university, wear foreign dress and are secular in outlook.

Hamlet, in anguish, questions? “To be or not to be?” For a cut throat, drug seeking addict this anguish is translated in “To use or not to use?” It is not only the quintessential question for existence, it is a mantra to be repeated again and again until the transformation takes place, and decision is made.

It’s hard to imagine what the French revolution was like, that is until you watched the riots and looting in the summer of 2011 in London England. We saw similar challenges a few years back in France. That time we saw some 400 different cities with rioters and civil unrest throwing Molotov cocktails into automobiles, burning down buildings, and an abundance of sound and fury amongst the blaze and noise.

Have we become too tolerant in the name of tolerance? Have we become too politically correct to demand orderly conduct from the electorate? Have we gone too far out of our way to make everyone feel warm and fuzzy to the point at which we can no longer enforce our way of life and our laws in our civilization?

Blood Quantum Laws is a term that describes legislation enacted in the US to define membership in Native American / Indigenous tribes or nations. “Blood quantum” refers to describing the degree of ancestry for an individual of a specific racial or ethnic group, for instance, 1/2 Salish tribe. Its use started in 1705 when Virginia adopted laws which limited colonial civil rights of Native Americans and persons of half or more Native American ancestry.

As a nine year old boy I saw a famous man of God demonstrate bigotry and discrimination. It was a disturbing education.

The origin of focus groups dates to about 50 years ago, and it traces its origins to World War II like many modern innovations. The focus groups were first created in the Office of Social Research in the United States, associate director, the sociologist Robert Merton. The same term was coined by psychologist and marketing expert, Ernest Dichter.