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Violence in South Africa: Beyond Racism

In the apartheid era, political violence in South Africa was invariably seen in black and white. But in the wave of anti-immigrant carnage that swept the country this month, all 42 of those killed were black. So were all of the tens of thousands who lost their homes. And all the mobs that beat, raped, robbed and burned them alive were also black. The hatred and violence that has shaken a country that optimistically proclaims itself a "Rainbow Nation" was not about racism; it was a symptom of globalization.
One of the defining phenomena of our age is migration. As the world shrinks and economies integrate, national boundaries become less important. At least, that's the theory. In reality, there is an elite of international professionals who do live comparable and seamlessly connected lives, whether they be in New York or New Delhi, Johannesburg or Tokyo. But among the world's poor, things do not go as smoothly.

Advocates of globalization are correct that free trade and free markets have raised average incomes around the world. The World Bank reports that the proportion of people living on less than $2 a day shrank from 67% in 1981 to 47% in 2004. But $2 still isn't very much. And other research, such as a 2004 report by the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization, has found that while the average person might be better off in absolute terms, he or she is also often relatively worse off: 59% of the planet is living in countries with widening inequality, while just 5% are in countries where disparity is declining. Separate studies suggest that the boom of the last two decades may be the first in which real wages failed to rise.

"Globalization might be creating rich countries with poor people," as economist Joseph Stiglitz noted. That much is apparent in South Africa, whose post-apartheid government adopted an open market economy that drew cheers from Wall Street and the international banking community.
That policy helped it achieved an impressive, steady annual economic growth rate of 4%-5%. But that growth rate has done little to reverse inequality or reverse dangerously high levels of unemployment. In November last year, the South African Institute of Race Relations estimated 4.2 million South Africans were living on $1 a day in 2005, up from 1.9 million in 1996, two years after the end of apartheid. Globalization was supposed to be the tide to lift all boats, but the evidence in South Africa suggests that millions of boats are not merely missing the tide, they're in an entirely different ocean.


Along with the growing cosmopolitanism of the wealthy and the professionals of the new economy, globalization has been accompanied by a surge in xenophobia. The phenomenon may have taken a graphically violent form in South Africa in recent weeks, but even in Europe the surge of populist xenophobia since the 1990s has propelled previously fringe groups such as the British National Party, Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National in France, neo-Nazis in Germany and the assassinated Pim Fontuyn's eponymous party in the Netherlands into the political mainstream. Last October, the Swiss People's Party won the largest single share of the vote — 29% — in a general election using a campaign poster depicting three white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag. Surveys show that even the United States, a nation built on immigration, is now more hostile to immigration than at any time in its history, and no presidential candidate dares oppose the plan to fence off Mexico. The 2007 Pew Global Attitudes Survey found that that a majority in every country except Japan, South Korea and the Palestinian territories wanted immigration reduced. And those most vehemently opposed were in the poorer countries: Cote D'Ivoire, a departure point to Europe for migrants from all over Africa, scored highest with 94% support for immigration curbs. At 89% were Indonesia, Malaysia and South Africa.



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We eating good.

Support. He has my vote.

Shhh....Celtics are on......

No words can express it.
Injured.
Carried out.
Limps back in.
Gets on the field in crunch time.
Pulls off two 3 point shots and steps off.
You got to respect it. Where my Celtic fans at?!
I watched in amazement.....

I was all into it....

The real Super 3. No pun intended.

WTH?

Loded Tee back in stock.
Hit me for it!

I hear these cookies are good....

WTH>?





Don he look like....

......his name should be doug?

It's been a while.

I've been busy lately, but I'm back. Here's stuff from Monday.
Basko is cool.

They came to our school. Made lunch exciting.

Mad air!


Through his eyes.

They came in with the stepping.

Check out this guy.

Check my mans cali gold. (No Homo)

After school contemplations. Didn't know where to go.

We decided to try Ted's Burgers. It was actually pretty good.

Good variety.

Good people.

Good food. There aren't enough of these around nowdays :(



And look who visited.
All the way from the OC, Apriana!

She took this picture while I was whistling to SADE lol.
She wanted me to myspace it but.....I think the blog will suffice.

Celly the fire man, fire f-fire man!
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We travel by bike.
Gas aint cheap aha.


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Kinsey/DesForges presents "Tiffany Bozic: Bedtime Stories" (May 24 - Jun 28, 2008)

A careful observer of the natural world, Tiffany Bozic's ability to capture and translate the graceful, complex and organic order of her surroundings- at times allegorically - remains one of the most salient aspects of her work. "Bedtime Stories represents a celebration of life's hardships and achievements," Bozic says. "I am fascinated with the beautiful intricacies and evolution of life [and] I have always been drawn towards finding some kind of common thread or language that binds us to and separates us from nature and each other."

In this latest series, she applies her trademark stains of acrylic washes to the natural grain of maple panel to render resonant stories based on observations in her travels and research while an artist in residence at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, where she helped establish their new Artist in Residence Program and exhibited in 2007.

Bozic has spent the majority of her life living with and observing nature, a habit she picked up as a child where she was raised on a farm in rural Arkansas. She has exhibited in galleries throughout the United States and Europe, and spoken at the 2007 Semi-Permanent International Arts and Design Conference in Sydney, Australia. Her artwork has been featured in publications such as BLK/MRKT One and Two, Flaunt and Fourteen Hills.

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