In a perfectly meritocratic state, each role would be filled by the person most qualified to fill it regardless of factors such as social background, gender, or race. On the surface, this system seems ideal. However, there has been some backlash to the idea of evaluating people based on talent or accomplishments in recent years.
By Pia Abou Jaoude
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Is that what globalization is? A power tactic that fabricates an allusion of achievement and pushes aside national discontent? Is it the perfect excuse to quietly implement hidden agendas at a national level without raising alarm at a global level?
At the end of February, a massive scandal caused by the poisoning of schoolgirls swept across Iran. In more than 50 schools across the country, dozens of girls were hospitalized with poisoning symptoms. They complained of respiratory problems, nausea and dizziness.
t makes sense that news outlets need to make money. They need to pay their employees and afford business costs, etc. However, the new wave of paywalls is not the ethical method to undertake for the adverse effects it inflicts, like depriving some individuals of the ability to stay informed of the world around them.
On Monday, February 6, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck regions in both Syria and Turkey. As soon as news broke out, countries from all over the world such as Pakistan, The United States, and the European Union scrambled to see how they could donate and provide assistance to the affected countries.
On Saturday, February 26, Nigerians took to the polls to elect their new leader, in what Al Jazeera called the beginning of a “democratic renaissance.” The West-African country has been cursed with political corruption and economic turmoil since the fall of its military regime in 1999. This year, however, a presidential candidate from an underdog party had emerged, and young voters were hopeful about the election’s result.
A court in Nicaragua stripped another 94 opposition figures of their citizenship on February 16. The decision comes a week after the Nicaraguan government deported and revoked the nationality of 222 political prisoners.
The process that has been given the name “de-Africanization” refers to the denial of the relationship between Africa and Spain across centuries. Antumi explained that it also alludes to the avoiding of responsibility for slavery and colonial crimes of the past.
The situation is scary, and the only thing that American citizens can do to prevent it is to vote. Reluctantly, and for the lesser of two evils, they have to cast their ballots. As for the rest of us, we will have to sit back, watch, and hope that the situation that all of us remember from our childhoods does not repeat itself. This time around, there will be no jolly ranchers or playground conversations to envelope our ignorance. This time, we will live through it as adults.
La guerra no es solo una serie de acciones tácticas y estratégicas; es un terreno donde la moral y la ley se entrecruzan de maneras complejas y dolorosas.
