Kenkyūkai

Marxism was first introduced in Japan in October 18, 1898, through the intellectual study society; a small group of Westernized intellectuals held the first meeting of the Shakaishugi Kenkyūkai (The Association for the Study of Socialism) at the Tokyo Unitarian Church. Although most of the founders considered themselves Christian socialist, the association was open to any intesetd party. The first phase of the socialist movement of the late Meiji period was marked by relative moderation and strong support for paraliametrism. The dominant force was Christian humanism , which did much to set the tone of the early Japanese socialist thought. At the general conventioin of the minuscule Japa Socliast Party (Nihon Shakatio) in mid-February 1907, the deep didvision within the momvent was clearly displayed. When Kotoku Denjiro emphises the the casue of “ direct action” was deafted by two votes, with a compromise resolution passing. The “moderates” who called for full-fledged esouosla of parliamentarism and complete rejection of the direct action. This dispute between the social democrats and the anarchists continued , with the left gaining increasing influence and further isolation of the socialist from the mainstream of the Japanese life; the Case of the Great Treason of 1910, when the anarchists had finally moved from words to action, with a failed plot to assassinate the Emperor Meiji, however as result twelve Japanese radicals , including Kotouko Denjiro, were punished, and the socialist party was virtually silenced. during World War I, few individuals like Arahata Kanson, Osugi Sakae, Sakai Toshihiko, and Yamakawa Hitoshi, kept the socialist movement active, but the tone of was still anarcho-syndicalist, reflective of the earlier one. It was at this time Japan had shifted from an agrarian society to predominantly industrial commercial society instead; this resulted in the first generation of labor class, with peasants serving as the recruits.
In 1917 the Bloshevik Revolution provided a new source of stimulus for the Japanese left. This borught an agina verent of the earlier Communist momvent, Nosaka Sanzo who served as perfect example of the time. Nosaka grew up in a totally bouregeois atmosphere and was able to attend Keio univesrty a generally conciedrd an upper class school, it was there that he became interested in labor movment, manily through his professor Horie Kiichi, in fact he wrote his senior thesis on the Yuaikai ( Friendly Society), which also the name of then the Moderate Japanese labor organization lead by Suzuki Bunji. Nosaka started as social reformer in labor and politcies, eventually he worked in the editorship of the Rodo Oyobi Sangyo (Labor and Industry), the union journal. His first contact with Marxism came in 1919 after reading the Communist Manifesto that Koizumi Shinzo brought back from the west. He joind the Britich Communist party in 1920 and attended the first congress as a delegate from the London district. Within years young intellectuals who kept moving into the labor movements during this time; came to the Yuaikai headquarters directly after thire grduation from universities such as Waseda, or Tokyo, and they had rarely been involved in physical labor. These students in the Yuaikai were sampling a doctrine more left in nature to what was made by their senior mentors. in addition a student adherent the Maxsit thought by the name of Katayama Sen; Katayama who had been prisond for five moths in support of the Tokyo streetcar strike for and wrote of the mistreatment he met in prison
, he left japan on August 31, 1914, he also discovered that his movement was under the surveillance of the Japanese police. Katayama contact with Ruggers, one of the earlist Marxist- Leninsts, proved benifcial; because of this Katayama was able to meet a goroup of Russian revolutinares living in exile New York. There he met Trotsky, Bukharin, Madame Kollontai, along with others. Within short time Katayama was the leading Asian Communist of the world, he established an Association of Japanese Socialists in America, and also helped in the unification of the American Communist Party, and undertook the Comintern mission to Mexico. There after he went to Moscow to serve as chairman of the Far Eastern People’s Congress.
Eventually The Japanese Communist Party was founded on July 15, 1922, in the midst of the popular liberation struggle surging in Japan at the time, and it was dissolved in 1924 as its leader, Yamakawa Hitochi, concluded that the situation is in need for more education and preparation, and mass demonstration instead of plotting by small group, the party was reconstituted in 1925, but that year the apparatus of state suppression had been strengthened by the Peace Preservation Law. Consequently the party’s activities were limited to conspirational work by a small and dedicated minority. It was at this time the leadership came from a group intellectuals led by Fukumoto Kazuo.
Radical student found this new challenge from the government, rather stimulating, also these actions brought their organization under official suspicion. For sometime the Tanaka government was surprisingly tolerate toward the student-organized disorder , but in March 1928 more police sweeps brought and end to student agitation and to the Shinjinkai itself.
The intellect of the national and international emergency that charatireesed nationalism in the Kokitai, was met by the conversion of the left, tenko , or apostasy which allowed radicals from the left back into the main stream. During the 1920’s subjects or Marxist study, had become popular answer for social study and plotical economy. However State officials were alarmed by the tenko , and went on bigger scale of arrest done by the police, that resulted in large apprehensions actual and suspected radical alike in March 1928 . these arrests effected the labor momvents and diminished the “underground Communist Party”, most of these arrest pracuters found , that the young people leading the torubel were indeed from a well to do family , with great intelligent. During 1933 Sano Manabu , who joind Yoshino Sakuzo’s Shinjinkaias a student in Tokoyo Impreial University and evntully became leader in the Japan Communist Party, he also was arrested in Shanghai in 1929, with Sakuzo also Nabeyama Sadachika, also a member of the party’s Central Committee. Both men announce thire defection from the Communist Party; and withdrew thire oppostion to the events in Manchuria, and followed by mentioning that “self-rule” in Korea and Taiwan was necessary. More importantly Sakuzo, and Nabeyama went on to say that the emperor system is an obstacle to institutional reform in Japan.
The defections of Sakuzo and Nabeyama, affected those detained in police custody, and as result a mass apostasy went on action. Within 45 percent of those not yet convicted 614 out 1370, and 34 percent (133 out of 393) and those who had been convicted of radicalism or radical activities. Became defected as well in three years 74 percent (324 out of 438) announced that they also returned to the “fold”.
Several accounts of theses trails were recorded from a diverse interest, for example psychologist, on the interrogation side, the interrogators them selves were warned to evade any type of arguments or resistance that could in effect provoke the detainee; for the fact that most of the radicals were relatively young. instead every effort was made to make these radicals to “return” to the core Japans values. A manual was designed to guide the interrogators, for example the interrogators were encouraged to provide the prisoners with bowl of chicken and egg on rice, this meal to resemble a “parent-child” relationship. Police men also were caution not mention ideology, instead they should offer a reminder the “your mother is worried about you” type of attitudes; and never to mention the father in the interrogation, for that might trigger a sense of defiance of authority.
The defection of Sakuzo, and Nabeyama brought satisfainying result to the authority, however it created a complicated dilemma a complicated problem, it became hard to decide which suspects to prosecute and which to let go. These who were resealed would sometimes would join the communist party or commit “offensive thought”, this in turn made the procurators

Mars and Venus

The progress of science and spread of industrialization among the wealthy self-governing nations, aside from bettering the quality of life, helped in part to flush out the social inequalities that had prevailed for so long. Efficiency is key to any successful industry. Meaning for any manufacturer they have to produce products of quality better or at the least in bar with all other similar or substitute products. While at the same time producing at least-cost so to turn in a profit. To any industry there are few options available to produce cheaply. They can control the resources going in to make the product. Using lower quality or fewer numbers of resources. However a more efficient way of producing cheaply is by simply using cheap labor. Especially when the process of manufacturing is straightforward and does not require individualistic touches. To put a string on a shoe or a label on a can does not require much thought or deliberation. Anyone can do it, it does not require specialization. That was precisely what the owners of the industry figured out.
The acquisition of many farmlands for use of factories freed a large portion of the population to work in manufacturing. Also the conflicts raging in and the industrialization of Europe had sent many flocking to the U.S. Like their counterpart former farmers in the U.S, many of the immigrants were poor and unskilled. Leaving them with no choice to earn a living except in manufacturing. A new class emerged a working class of men and women and before it was checked and outlawed, of children. This working class produced what a minority of the population could afford to buy. More then often laboring under conditions that was abhorrent by any standard of judgment. They worked long hours, sixty or a little more then that a week, more often every day. They worked in facilities that were only suitable for the unfeeling product they produced. The list of injustices and sickening conditions under which they labored is long and at the time it must have seemed to the workers they would never be rid of them. But also a product (perhaps) of a wealthy freethinking society is the emergence of individuals who recognize injustices and try their best to correct them. Often these individuals seek others who are of the same mind and convictions. Or perhaps succeed in converting the indifferent or ignorant to sympathizers to their cause and together they form unions and pressure groups. At the beginning perhaps the different unions and groups have tried to appeal to the 'noblesse oblige' of the owners. However when such an appeal to pity and justice does not produce any long lasting, as unfortunately it often does not, they took the legal recourse.
Laws to better the working conditions in the industrial sector did not pass without hindrance. A prevailing attitude of the time was effort equaled to wealth or at least to moderate economic comfort. Which is perhaps true to some extent and in some instances. Aside from that there was the constitution and the article of contract and also the economic philosophy of laissez-faire, which warns the government from interfering with the free flow of commerce. Which perhaps explains why many lawmakers were recusant to any idea of reform. Recognizing that any such law would have to be policed in order to be effective and therefore it would conflict with the article of contract and laissez-faire.
But also a product of the time was that a large number of women and children were available and willing to work. When the concerned parties for the well being of the industrial workers failed to produce a law limiting the amount of hours for all workers, they sought and succeeded in passing one for women and children. By pointing out that long working hours were detriment to the health of children and the future and current mothers of the race. Especially when many of the jobs women and children were involved in required them to be working while standing. These laws were passed between the years of 1840 and 1850 and at the time were seldom enforced in the few states where they existed. Later amendments to the laws however rectified that.
But what of men workers? A larger workforce then women and more specialized they favored change through union actions. Those few who worked in an industry alongside of female were also not left out since when a law changes the condition of their female co-workers it automatically changes theirs. That was what many reformers had intended. By changing the conditions of women they are able to change the overall condition of the workplace. They simply used women as their appeal for change. In doing so they had to claim there was a major difference between men and women workers. They had to agree to, and maybe they even believed, that because women were weaker then men, they needed laws to protect them. That was the contention of the so-called Brandeis' brief. These laws though at the time worked proved to be a hindrance to many future attempts for women progress. Especially when just saying women were weaker then men was not enough.
Before the Brandeis brief reformers received a major set back to the hour-limit law. It was because of the Ritchie v. People case of 1895 that the Illinois Supreme Court delivered their blow. Interpreting the 14th amendment the court held to the opinion that an hour-limit law for women was class classifying them, therefore discriminatory and therefore illegal. The court wanted the people's lawyer to show that it was reasonable for an hour-limit law for women. Instead of using the court's decision in future cases for their benefit and try and find other reasons for an hour-limit law, future litigation wanted to provide the courts with their coveted reasons. The Brandeis brief delivered. It provided lawmakers with a detailed account of why an hour-limit law was important for women. Before it was the lawmakers opinions and beliefs unsupported by evidence, as they were though mostly also based on opinions and not facts, until the brief. It was the ammunition with which they fired whenever challenged to give women the same status as men under the law.
Another fight that had used women's suffrage as the basis for its claim was the fight for minimum wage. Again reformers instead of trying convincing men dominated industry and union of the validity of their claim they thought of acting on their behalf. However not by failing a claim on behalf of all workers men and women but again using women as the conduit for change. Citing again that women were the weaker sex and therefore needed protection. In 1920 however things changed.
During that year the amendment allowing women to vote was finally rectified. Giving women right groups a very powerful with which to bargain. Less was the effort for change through litigation then through influencing congress to act. Taking however the venues of fights from the courtrooms to the street. Instead of lawyers arguing against each other with the judge as mediator in waiting to be persuaded, social right groups vied with each other to influence politician for support. Some groups still held to the opinions of old. That the bases for intervention were not a general health issues but that of women suffrage. Fortunately they eventually lost.
Perhaps finally understanding the power of the union in influencing public policy the social rights advocates started pressuring the true law makers as intended by the constitution, the politicians. The 1930 saw the advancement of the many social solution proposed by the women right groups and male unions. It saw the birth of the social security program. It saw the establishment of a minimum wage, which passed unchallenged by judges afraid of the newly elected president's promise of reform. The changes during the 1930 proved right reformers who advocated reform for both sexes. As if to further proof their policy of action the hour-limit back fired on the reformers who adopted women suffrage as their bases of change. Hour-limit laws disqualified women from overtime and promotion.
The fight for social right is worthy cause that merits the efforts to gain them. Perhaps that is why reformers who used women suffrage as their line of action may be forgiven the harms they had not intended nor could have foreseen.




















Topic # 2
Sultan Altemimi

The Mouse and Mouse before

There is a story of a group of mice’s whom all had their own portions of lands,
The mice lived and ate and played as they wished in the hours of day and night

One night a dog came about, to dig into the mice land, mices wondered around the dog as it dug deep, and deep…..
The mice did not ask the dog what deal he is about,
The dog put a smile and left mices, and promised to come back with gift, not to all
The dog left on these words, the mice wondered, and puzzled for while, but returned to sleep for it was far to late.

In a swiftly cold night, dark brown mouse of the east appeard near dawn near the village , ridding on the back of a mouse of the same group as his, with the this dark brown mouse of the east came also riding, the un-talented bird of the center, together they came on the land of mice , and woke everyone in the village with noisy screeches and sounds,
and asked for the white mouse that ruled the mice, “ we don’t Carrie such thing”one mouse replied, “whit mouse is just a name, he come time to time but never stays”, for the white mouse is not from here you see, white mouse comes from farther lands to the north”
Dark brown mouse of the east laughed loud, and said “news could not be grater then this, for I am now the mouse leader to this clan,” “clan we are not O east mouse” replied a ragged mouse from the back “
“O great mouse”…I shall like this name, from now all you mice shall call me as thus
Un talented bird replied, I conquer o grate one , for now you secure my right onto this land and grant me what I never had, a voice I shall sing , and heal a broken wing of mine, east mouse replied I declare myself one and only on this land
”wait” ragged mouse from the back said, for we had no one telling us mouses what to do,
“For now you either follow me or trapped between me and the sea”

The strode back dog from the north came back as it had told before, and said “now look O great mouse from the east, I shall not tell you what to do here, or there, within this mere land of yours , for land matter not to me no more, but within these lands my needs are buried, I shall however, the these mice are treaatd I don’t care, that where I had dug before I need my

good sleep street sleep

@ tha moives

Gone with the Wind is a movie based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell. Produced in 1939 it started Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara. The movies follow the lives of its two heroes against the backdrop of the civil war era including what life was before and during the reconstruction period.

It is an excellent movie that had own many awards and was a hit in the box office. From historical perspective however the movie falls short of giving a full picture of the civil war era and the reconstruction period, particularly to the lives of the slaves. The movie however does show the horror of the civil war and the devastation of the south. It also mentions thought not as much as it had about the carpetbaggers the unchanging lives of the freed slaves. So in the main the movie is about the lives of the slave owners and how much they had suffered after they have enjoyed for so long.
With little mention of the slaves who are showed as typically submissive, slow and greedily vindictive when it came to wanting their rights. Failing to show a single good black person other then the nanny, who’s motives for staying were never fully explained.

Another movie that has dealt with the civil war era is Glory. It was 1989 production starting Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman. Like Gone With the Wind, Glory was also a product of its time. In that it tried to be balanced in its presentation. The movie primarily evolved around the lives of the freed slaves who constituted the first all-black volunteer union company and their white commander. I thought the movie was truthful and honest in its presentation. Showing the good and the bad on both sides. Showing the southerners who fought not to maintain slavery but for an independent state in which they believed. At the same time it showed how the rage of freed slaves in other regiment was exploited to drive terror in the hearts of the south. In all it was better representative then many of its predecessors of the civil war era.

protect land said man then signed in the air.,

from my kind and from other kinds he said protect them .
where do you come from,
where in your life did you learn to blame?

claim after claim about the same game
you don’t exist in human form
you exist in beast form that’s all
a beast devours what beast devoured your soul
there no place on the planet to carry you no more
you at last became what you've dreamed about,
yes your that bad as you are ,
don’t realize, many years you’ve seen reflication
you become what you wanted to be,
in fact all came to be what they wanted to be
just you , walk talk look, like you
happiness is now foregone never will it come to be
this land no more as it was before

To be from this land
To be a part of what their not
Speak their tongs you do
Speak to their mind you wont, you don’t
Full of symbolisms they prefer
Full of bullshit they prefer,
True emptiness in what is ever left
In the body, in the should in the mind
Hunger and starvation for bling
Chasing and foaming for Cash
No where to go but to the past
Noting genuine here
Nothing lasts

You write or type about the subjects
Come from a place with whimsical life
Come from away family
Come from your mouth what you don’t believe
Come from your mind what you cant apprehend

Leave what you don’t, about please
Go back to where you come from with this.
Keep it to thee self please.
Don’t for, few claps; sell what’s left in soul
What you do impress west nor east
For these, impressions but few seconds
Go back to where you come.,
Please stay calm and choose what you like
Leave what you don’t know about,
A father beating a mother weeping,
A Bus into the oblivion it went.
Claim the text made the man.
Not true for the text is just
You and all please leave these text to be
For centuries proved to be
What you and the other cant foresee
Nor ever will understand

O friend of mine would be quite
O friend of mine away you go,
For us to be friends matters no more
No more then a poster of an AD on the wall
A Wall by the subway for a second or so
An Ad to remind us of what we had

First arabic writing since 6 years good luck

وجميع البلاد التي علي هذا الخط لا عرض لها البتة، والقطبان غير مرتبين فيها ، ويكونان هناك علي داءرة الافق من الخابنين . وكلما بعد موضع بلد عن هذا الخط إلى ناحية الشمال قدر درجة، ارتفع القطب الشمالي الذي هو الجدي على أهل ذلك البلد درجة، وانخفض القطب الجنوبي الذي هو سهيل درجة، وهكذا ما زاد.

I was watching a video Pagan poetry, Bjork, I cant put the thing on ‘O’, anyhow, the video depicted Bojork in the usually bjork act, and then inserted what is looks like needles into her body, in her back.

I used to rembre when I used to do something similar, back when I was young kid, maybe 12 or 13 years old I think even younger, I used put sewing needle into the thin skin that covers my hand, I cam here and I watched young and old, American whits, doing so except in all shape of sharp edge metals and in all different parts of their body, you would know when you see it, while on the beach all is too clear, you can actually see tinges shine on people’s bodies, in a country that idolizes symbolism, no these bodys don’t look heavenly bodies, they look more like abused bodies at the least.

Bjork might me right on a thing, Pagan see this piercing did originate from the ancient times, not clear on the Asians piercing but someone long time ago had to start this practice that indeed went far, you see regardless off religion , human body can and actually does

Circumcised since babyhood, I think for me this enough skin giving or skin anything; I think this real hard core maybe ancient practice according to some

Yes friend we go now
no friend we shall nor go or stay,
yes friend I want to be in the company of yours
no friend I no longer be wanted with you,
yes friend lets grab a drink,
no friend lets not be drinking,
Yes friend I want/need your help,
no thanks friend no help no need,
Yes friend I am not ok
no friend am rightfully ok,
yes friend leave me alone,
no friend don’t leave alone,
Yes to yes on anything friend,
no to yes on anything friend,
yes friend are enemy we be,
no close to an inch we shall be
yes I don’t want no more ,
No I don’t want to be with you no more,
Yes when they are here you should not be,
No when you are here they cant be here.

When I am stuck I want you all your help,
when you are stuck I don’t want to be part help,
I want you away, yet I want near,

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To leave to depart
to leave without regret,
to be a part of different parts,
to just and readjust,
to look onto another side,
to disown what was acquired
to not say goodbye
to liquefy,
to cease to exist
to feel unfeeling

To not look once
to look once
to not be part of all them
to release
to not question no more
no one
to depart forever
to depart to never
to just go away,

talk allot

Where do we stand, I was wondering for a while, but I never thought to write something about it, that is to be a national or a religious or national- religious, in that order national and then religious.

we grew in society that its riches just became internationalized, before then no one, heck anyone non muslim at least knew about that place, our parents grew with these traditions that has been passed to them from their parents, and of course their parents knew of else in the world except to find ends meet.
Sometimes ends meet requires heading north, and leave what their home, for a new one up north.
Wherever they came from (grand parents) for us it was never clear, and questions always were met with no answers, who we are, what we are. This all comes in the midst of national reforms, in class a guy enters the class rooms and asks who is a saudi stand up, who is not just remain sit, I stood for both calls, I went to my father and asked which are we and he just laughed this is something unique about growing up saudi, its in way a big joke. Ambiguous rules that applies to neither party in a game, to the audience it punishment, I came here and I found no difference, I talk to white people here and see how they pretend what their four father had had created for them.

I was reading a comment by a I would assume a white male, about the recently free jill carol, and how he was making fun, of how she was wearing head scarf, and looking terrorist, and he goes on, and the bottom saying stuff like she might have loved the kidnaper and so on, and how she might hate white males who talk about equality for women, and women rights and all that, he is right on one part perhaps two, they just talk and talk allot.

becum

I was chatting with a friend, earlier today, I always had the impression that things might had changed but is seems hope is nowhere near what realty is.
Family values did not necessarily plummet, cant remember when it was on healthy bases, it seems that fucking is becoming what more able people used to do, only more now its spread, where are you heading? And for how long? Who would want to take the lead of the direction of the intercourse, where is the desired destinations campus pointing to.
When religious phonies will be satisfied, people do seem to understand its just that they wont comply with more stricter rules, its always been the same problem, they cant seem to look like the people you would want to be around when they preach, with dangling bellies, and half trimmed beard black and shiny, their smile indicated good health and elusive punishment,
They both groups understand that both like the same thing, both know what the other likes and do, only difference is one is armed and one is not,
In here they choose to ignore, ignore that fact of their impotence, here the just bullshit, all the time, they know their weak they know they as human are gone far, here it is a big Inc
, and people meet fuck eat together on different lunch breaks , they claim freedom, but salves they are eversince that strayed foot landed, its caught just like those , on streets over nights and day. 3abeed not for many for one, one that has a belly, eats from mouth, and shits and they eat where he shits.

American Identity last

. However such practices of cruel vengeance was not enough. By the war’s end, the Algonquian population in New England had been drastically and permanently reduce (Lepore 43). Of those who escaped such fate a worse one, it might be argued, awaited them. After certain battles “Captives,” Lepore writes “were almost surely sold into foreign slavery or, if children, placed into service with an English family” (135). Contrasting radically with the terms of captivity the Indian held to, for “English people owned themselves; Indians did not.” Says Lepore (135). Yet another fate waited those who survived captivity or death.
The Indians were driven to, what I perceive as the forefather to concentration camps, so called Deer Island where Lepore writes “the hundreds of Indians on the small island had few resources with which to feed and shelter themselves for the winter, and the provisions they received were inadequate” (139). And further write, “Those Indians who tried to escape from Deer Island could be killed, while others were illegally taken from the island and sold as slaves” (139).
I think more then anything fear had aided greatly in shaping the American character. In all its endeavors I think the United State was compelled by fear and carried out by extreme pragmatism. As their settlers forefathers American of the twentieth century illustrate this point in almost all their dealings with any threat, real or imagined, to their authority. The tormenting hearings of senator McCarthy, the mob lynching of African-Americans and abhorrent treatments they suffered during the civil rights era; and the most extreme of all reaction the dropping of the nuclear bomb on Japan. “Terminate with extreme prejudice.”
I have heard the sentence uttered time and again on TV and in print by presidents and military leaders, of past and present and I think it sums up how American react and why they are driven to have the best of things then the other party. Whoever that other party is. Like the colonist who strove to protect themselves by any means so are contemporary Americans acting in the same deplorable way they say they are fighting. So I guess in the end it is true. The weapons change but the words and the sentiments behind them stays the same.

American Identity part 4

The settlers saw the Indian and feared their fate. They wondered in earnest if they would degenerate to the ostensible savagery of the Indians. From the time of their first arrival, in the 1620 and 1630, the settlers had worried about losing their Englishness (Lepore 5). The colonists had asked themselves a question concerning the origin of the natives. If they were in fact natives then their savagery is explained. “But if the Indians were migrants from Europe or Asia, then they had changed since coming to America and had been contaminated by its savage environment. If this were the case, as many believed, then the English could expect to degenerate, too.” Wrote Lepore (6). The settlers also feared losing their lands and their houses. In fact as Lepore further writes “For most colonists the loss of habitations became the central crisis of the war” (77)
This seemingly prominent culture of fear the United state had come of age into explains the tendencies toward the extreme and viciousness of reaction when feeling threatened or when responding to an attack. In that they passed what Lepore call “Colonists vigilante justice” (138). As one of its practices any Christian Indian wishing to return to the English had to supply severed body parts of slain enemy Indians. As was done by James Painter, a Nipmuck Christian Indian, who when amnesty was presented, surrendered himself to the English settlers “ Bringing with him, as required by special instruction, the heads of two enemy Indians-testaments of his fidelity.” Lepore wrote

American Identity part 3

King Philip’s war took place during the year 1675 and lasted tell about the middle of 1676. At its end, as Lepore writes, “ Houses have been burned, children murdered, men beheaded. Hatred has accumulated.” (3).
It was a savage conflict where both sides were given to bloodlust. Both sides pursued the war with viciousness, and almost without mercy (Lepore 7). But here I am not concern about the behavior of the native, as much as it might be abhorrent to me, but I am with the English settler’s. For they have professed themselves better then the native in all way in particularly moral values. It was these same moral values that had justified to the English settlers their barbarous actions during the conflict. Moreover it was not just arrogance that had compelled them, fear had also played a part. What the settlers feared the most was their environment.
Especially when it seemed to have had conspired against them. “When the corn didn’t grow, when the weather turned wild, when the wolves howled, when the Indians laughed at God, these are the times when the colonists might have wondered, What are we doing here? Discouraged and afraid, thousands of colonists simply left- as many as one in six sailed home to England in the 1630 and 1640, eager to return to a world they knew and understood (Lepore 5). However those who stayed soon got over their many concern, as Lepore writes. “…those who stayed eventually learned to grow corn, predict the weather, shoot wolves, and ignore Indian blasphemies” (5). Though they were able to ignore “Indian blasphemies” they were not able to ignore the Indians living at their doorstep.

American Identity part 2

War, ethnic background, location and time all without a doubt have had a role in the formation of the American identity. However it was in my opinion a set of shared values that has most influenced the formation of the American identity. On studying the history of the united state one get a sense of deep-rooted sense of arrogance that was common among all the colonists.
A strong held belief that they were better then their follows; in all aspect of life, religion, education, economics and government. All colonists believed themselves better then the native with whom they shared the land. They looked down upon the native as savages and themselves as their saviors. The Spanish were cruel, the French sly and the English civil, in their efforts. No one would contest the cruelty of the Spanish or the underhanded dealings of the French (except maybe the people of the two nations) but many would the so-called English civility.
It is in examining the English settlers dealings with the native in particular their behavior in the events of King Philip’s war that one see how arrogance played a role in defining the American identity. There is however another factor, which I also believe, helped in defining the American identity, fear. From its beginning America was shaped by fear real and imagined. Combined with arrogance it was a strong force. King Philip’s war illustrates this perfectly.

party seris II

he told him "Your a Saudi you people dont drink? and I can see that you are doing it  excessively, how is that when we hear about islam and all that?"

 he replayed "I think I can give you some points on probably why, how, what, where, it might the drinking start. I can’t tell these as a facts, nor as a true explanation to Saudi drinking in general, at the end it always depends on the individual’s preference some actually don’t do alcohol but prefer pot for example which is sill considered haram (our word for forbidden"
 he told him these are not genetics like you guys tend to blame things, how come its always about race in here anyway ? nor religious reasons would is a factor, "I’ve seen both people with same gene codes as I am, and I’ve seen and met and befriended both, so the answer is no."

you have to understand that we are or we were a very private secluded people,  yet in the same time we want to get exposed to everything and try everything counterdetcing ? it is and maybe it should.

In the present of, or around our own kind, and by kind the I mean same city,tribe, or same school back home school, could be State school too, mainly males.
the fact is this, we dont because we want to be able to do it when actually can not!
this is normal for most of those who adhere to islam.
I can imagaine them going throguh the same thought process.

there was a joke circling around most desi people,
the joke goes like this, a drunk man goes into a resturant, whith two woman by his side, he sits down and order food, the food comes in and he asks the waiter is it Halal?