What factors do you believe have contributed to the conflict and uprising? Explain. i.e Poverty, Women's right
This is where you share your thoughts on what factors you believe have contributed to the conflict and uprisings? Explain. i.e Poverty, Women's right
This post was edited on: 2011-03-09 at 12:10 PM by: Terry Godwaldt (Moderator)
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It was definitely a combination of factors. Just one factor would probably not have lead to the full scale protests that occurred. A poor economy, high unemployment, poverty and rising food prices were major factors. Mubarak was, for most of his career, an authoritarian ruler, but it was only after Egypt began to experience these factors that its citizens decided to take action.
I agree with Shawc. The people in the middle east were frustrated with their corrupt governments and after Mubarak in Egypt was overthrown it paved the way for other citizens in other countries to protest and stand up to their governments.
I think part of it is defiantly the living conditions. Many people have trouble finding jobs, or, when they do they aren't paid enough or given to difficult work. With the way things are being run it is kind dictator-isk, this is not in all places, but in quite a few. The people do n have much of a say in what goes on and instead of being able to vote and do things more calmly they have to riot and protest to get their points across. They need people to represent the people.
Goverments fail because leaders fail to listen to the people. Or they have a view that the majority is againts.
I believe that the factors that have lead to conflict in the Middle Eastern world is that the Western World, such as the USA, Canada, England, Germany, etc. has pushed the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) on them without taking into consideration their beliefs and ways of life. The Muslim countries that make up the Middle East believe that men are higher in life than the women in hteir society. These countries, such as Saudi Arabia, have banned Western traditions and do not want any of the ways of the Western world. They want "modernization withouth Westernization." They believe that the Westeren world is destroying their culture and thus they rebel to the Western ways. These MDGs have done just the opposite of what these countries want and thus have tried to make their countries a stricter place. They try to reinforce the beliefs of their religion and the people rebel because they now know what the Western world has and how they live and they want to be like the Western countries.
i totally agree, the MDG's has helped in ways but it has also caused conflict with other countries especially countries of the Muslim faith.
I believe that modern technology spreading around the world was a major factor that contributed to the revolutions in the Middle East. A lack of government censorship (like in China) in the countries of the Middle East allow their citizens to have access to more ideas from other countries. Spread of different ideologies was key to other revolutions in history and I don't see why these would be any different.
poverty would be a main factor towards rebelions and revolutions,in the past many other nations have also had problems with poverty and revolutions resulted from this
All of these sound like good arguements..I think that when the conditions of living are already so poor, the price of living keeps rising and rising, your government isn't doing what he's promised to do for 20 some years, and the people have nowhere to turn, that is when you face a full-scale riot. If you look at the early French Revolution, the people openly rebelled after the quality of life became so poor they couldn't afford to eat anymore, and in Egypt, they look at the Western world and then the fact that they can hardly afford to keep their families alive, of course their reaction is going to be violent. I would too!
The main factor that has to do with the uprsising in my opinion would be, the new ideas brought to the table every year or every decade. examples such as;
makeup companies,clothing brands, new ways to connect on the internet,meeting new people now and then, and everyone around the world being introduced to different types of technology.
Obviously women rights. Because in Libya, the women are being raped and killed just because the government can. If the women could speak up, I bet the government would possibly do some change. But since the women cannot speak up, they won't pay as much attention. Instead they will continue to kill the men.
i think what caused the protests in egypt aside from the oppresion, poverty and having little rights was the fact that with globalization coming so quickly the egyptions saw what it did for other countrys and wanted the same so they ended the dictatorship and embraced it hoping to better themselvs
This post was edited on: 2011-03-14 at 01:35 PM by: Lakem
Shawc
Mar 10, 2011 at 8:38 PM