Friedman Notes

[Gregory Hewett]

Post your lists here.

[tamsin]

• Most Arab Muslim people are living under authoritarian governments are deprived of their rights and so they are angry and frustrated.
• Islamist militants want to set back the flattening of the world and they can do it with another 9/11 attack.
• The Muslim extremists are attacking TRUST because TRUST is what towers the flattening and openness of the world. They turn daily life objects into weapons.
• Al-Qaeda attacks against USA and western countries are planed to create revolt from Muslim against there own rules who are put there by USA
• All the Arab countries combined are much more undeveloped than the rest of the world
• Bin Laden’s passive support around the Arab Muslim world.
• Most of the people living in the Arab Muslim world have two options, 1) abandon their religion or 2) remain forever in the back of advancement.
• Civil wars over ideas and ideology’s are sometimes useful, example of America enslaves.
• The explosive growth in Beijing in China is making it very polluted. There is 1,500 cars are added to the city each day.
• China is sort of supporting the corrupt oil governments by buying so much oil from them, example Sudan and Iran.


By Tamsin, Julie, jung kyu, Jozefien, Priyanka, Sanjay

[hisu]

Notes on Humiliation (401-413)



Self cure starts with self realization and confession

Passive and active supporters, helping by not interfering with anybodies business.

Arabs don’t want to accept western influences, they want to keep their religion their “own flat world”

The human resource report which was developed in 2002, was announcing the GDP of the 22 Arab states compared to Spain. To their astonishment, Spain’s yearly GDP was much higher than all of the Arab states combined together.

International investment, innovations are really rare, so the ideas that come along don’t have strength to hold up their religion, politics and economic difficulties.

With out trust in the government there is no open society, so many barriers and obstacles begin to form, and break the trust of the country.

24 percent of the unemployment in the world is from the Arabian states.

The frustration of living under an authoritan government.

Some Arabs need to start signing foreign free trade agreements and collaborate with the things that can enhance their economy.

Germany was humiliated out of WWI but it produced state responses by not using violence.

The Arab world started to develop numbers and the modern movements, but they started to fall behind because they stopped connecting with the outside world.

By: Ji Young, Olivia, Elizabeth, Maimoona, Manu, Hi Su

[sparsh]

Top 10 notes on pages 391 – 413
1. One consequence of the flat world is that it allows cultures and people in a very direct manner. Sometimes it is very fast therefore people and or cultures may not be prepared for this kind of collaboration.
2. People of the Arab – Muslim world are beginning to show their anger towards their authoritarian government that deprives them of voice.
3. The young people of the Arab – Muslim world want more freedom of thought, expression and opportunity in the Arab – Muslim world and they are able to figure out the disadvantages, because of the flat world allows them to communicate with other cultures and compare.
4. Unfortunately, these are not the people governing the country and defining the relationship between the Arab – Muslim world and the world at large. Instead this is one by strict religious militants and extremist, who are against the flattening of the world and do not want to change.
5. Muslim extremist banned the one thing that allows the openness in a nation which leads to flattening – TRUST.
6. The founders of Al-Qaeda are not religious fundamentalists but rather they are political ones.
7. Terrorism comes not from the poverty of money but from the poverty of dignity.
8. Most schools of the Arab – Muslim world today teach the Koran as text not open to any literary criticism/creative reinterpretation. It does not encourage independent thinking.
9. Arab – Muslim world want stagnation and power. Either they abandon their religion or stay behind form the rest of the world. This makes people angry and therefore they lash out.
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