Everyone knows Ham is Satan's lucheon meat of choice.
Along with oliveloaf.
And bologna! (we've now come full circle with the astronomy post!)
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Everyone knows Ham is Satan's lucheon meat of choice.
Along with oliveloaf.
Western countrys still activly retard the advancement of many iddle Eastern countries
To usher science and technology more thoroughly into Arab culture and society, however, the West needs to acknowledge the Arab world's historical contributions, and the Arab world needs to stop dwelling on its golden past by also embracing lessons about science and technology that the West learned long ago.
Rich Arabs believed that oil money plus Western technology was a simple formula for industrialization and modernization. Thus, acquiring the latest technological products or shares in hi-tech industries became synonymous with being partners in the technological revolution of the modern world. After all, most Arabs view science as a commodity that can be separated from the thought processes and sociocultural attributes of its producers. This perspective makes it hard to appreciate the differences in culture and values between technology-producing and technology-consuming societies.
....the arrival of innovations brings with it, directly or indirectly, the lifestyle and sociocultural values of their innovators. Wealth, it seems, is powerless against the culture of those who create and own the technology.
...has been to view the West's interest in science as an improper indulgence in material trivialities. For decades, these changes were proliferating and festering under the surface, creating an atmosphere inimical to science and one effectively closed to the possibility of learning from the Western experience.
Science was caught in the cross-fire. Subconsciously for many Arabs, modern science's ties to the West, to rationalism, and to natural materialism gave it the flavor of enmity. And because science cannot be practiced nowadays without close collaboration with Western academic institutions, research has become, in the minds of many Arabs, a suspicious activity and yet another potential gateway for Western incursion.
So if a culture does not put a great emphasis on science and instead emphasis on spirituality and their fate in the afterlife that makes them backwards?
What makes a belief in science superior to an emphasis on spirituality. Just because science is more important in your life doesnt mean it should be in everyones life.
Did you look at the statistics i gave? They spend a vanishingly small portion of their incomes on any form of research, weapons or otherwise.... now militarization, is another story. The west is partially responcible for the militarization and arms race, but not for wepon reserch funding.The fact that they spend a large portion of their incomes on weapons development
Most higher scientific institutions in Arab countries are run by governments, which, in undemocratic systems, means that their goals actually are more political than scientific. This mode of governance reflects unfavorably on many aspects of academic life, rendering scientific merit and research of little importance for career advancement and precluding any genuine evaluation of the scientific performance of these institutions. Lack of high-quality research by faculty members, in turn, limits training opportunities for students and hinders the development of the very organizational structures that would support the growth of research capacity. This has turned most Arab universities merely into centers for knowledge dissemination, not for questioning, criticism, and an authentic search for new knowledge.
? Also I would like to see the science spending of other former colonial countries freed around WWII vs. the middle east. I imagine they would not be fairly similar
...Now if you look at Africa it has many of the same conditions after WWII. Inept rulers appointed by western powers, artificial borders drawn up by the west, lack of development under colonialism, ect.
Av- The Ottoman empire was not ruled by Arabs nor Middle Easterns but was controlled by Turks (Seljuks) from central Asia not the middle east. Also the effects of Ottoman colonialism did not have as great an effect on the Middle East as did western colonalism. I am not arguing that one country was a better colonial occupier but only that western colonalism has had a very negative effect on the Middle East.
One last thing, people keep using Arab, Muslim, and Middle Eastern interchangably which they are not. Please try to use the correct word to describe the people or region you are refering to.
So if a culture does not put a great emphasis on science and instead emphasis on spirituality and their fate in the afterlife that makes them backwards? What makes a belief in science superior to an emphasis on spirituality. Just because science is more important in your life doesnt mean it should be in everyones life.
The emergence of a Saudi state began in central Arabia in 1744. A regional ruler, Muhammad bin Saud, joined forces with a cleric, Muhammad Abd Al-Wahhab, to create a new political entity. This alliance formed in the 18th Century remains the basis of Saudi Arabian dynastic rule today. Over the next 150 years, the fortunes of the Saud family rose and fell several times as Saudi rulers contended with Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, and other Arabian families for control on the peninsula. The Saudi state was founded by the late King Abdul Aziz Al-Saud (known internationally as Abdul Aziz bin Saud).
involves all forms of reserch, not just medical.annual spending on research and development in Arab countries is estimated at 0.15% of their gross domestic product (GDP)
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With all due respect, Jlap.
The Israelites lived in Israel way before the Palestinians "claimed" it. The Israelites have been driven out of their country several times. They've given part of their land to the Palestinians just to appease them and that's still not enough.
When the British arrived in the US, they stole the land of the American Indians. The British claimed the Indian's land and drove them to the South. Many years later, the US stole Texas from the Spanish colony. Since we stole this country from it's original inhabitants, do we not deserve to be here?
And as far as native americans, if the few hundred pure NA's would speak up I'd listen