{"id":179,"date":"2004-11-12T15:29:49","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T15:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=172"},"modified":"2004-11-12T15:29:49","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T15:29:49","slug":"111204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"11\/12\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"

A tinder box is growing among Arabs, and others, in the Middle East. According to a recent Time Magazine <\/em>article (9\/13\/04), “hosilities toward the West, in particular the U.S., appears to be on the rise.” The factors, according to the article, include the U.S.’s continued support of Israel’s policies toward Palestine and contempt for the U.S. occupation of Iraq. What’s more, Western popular culture is starting to tremendously impact the Middle East as well. What a lot of this modern popular culture panders is: rampant materialism; sexual imagery; lewd forms of art (modern American music, cinema…) Oh, many in this country don’t see anything wrong with this. It’s just, well, free<\/em>-market capitalism, or, freedom<\/em> of expression, or… Is it that some in these other countries: ‘hate our freedom?’ Or, do they hate the byproducts of how we’re expressing our freedom. Example: I interviewed a woman from India last year who said the youth in her country for generations expressed the utmost respect for elders in that society, demonstrated a love for simplicity and spiritual principle, believed in modesty of dress… Then within one generation of being exposed to ‘Western popular culture,’ many of the youth in India, she said, now have lost much of the respect for elders, dress immodestly, and are inordinately caught up in material pursuit… Sure, there’s extreme political oppression in some of these countries that needs to be addressed by the international community. But, this is by no means black & white, but rather a set of complex issues — in which we (the U.S.) needs to be looking on “our side of the street as well.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tinder box is growing among Arabs, and others, in the Middle East. According to a recent Time Magazine article (9\/13\/04), “hosilities toward the West, in particular the U.S., appears to be on the rise.” The factors, according to the …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}