Europe – Globalistan http://globalistan.org Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:20:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.17 To fly or not to fly? http://globalistan.org/to-fly-or-not-to-fly/ http://globalistan.org/to-fly-or-not-to-fly/#respond Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:20:57 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=531 As people in Europe consider the question, take a moment to consider this graphic from the Information is Beautiful Blog I’ll leave it at that for now. Hope all of you stuck out there get back home safe, sound and happy in the knowledge that somehow you’ve contributed to making our planet more habitable. The […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/to-fly-or-not-to-fly/feed/ 0 Does Europe have a problem with Islam? http://globalistan.org/does-europe-have-a-problem-with-islam/ http://globalistan.org/does-europe-have-a-problem-with-islam/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:13:05 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=480 The last couple of months have seen intense debate on European society’s openness towards Muslim immigrants. Following the Swiss ban on minarets and the French proposal to ban the burqa in public life, fears have been expressed over the exclusion of Muslims from European social and political life. Politicians have gained enormous capital by channeling […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/does-europe-have-a-problem-with-islam/feed/ 6 Winter School 2009 & the Buttered Cat Paradox http://globalistan.org/winter-school-2009-the-buttered-cat-paradox/ http://globalistan.org/winter-school-2009-the-buttered-cat-paradox/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:00:32 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=338 Winter School 2009 took place last weekend in the national park of the Karkonosze Mountains, Poland. The First Years and anybody else who chose to attend, were put up in two huts, Samotnia and Strzecha, located 500 metres from each other, with the nearest city of Karpacz situated a good 1.5 hour walk through the […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/winter-school-2009-the-buttered-cat-paradox/feed/ 1 ‘The Dalits of Europe’ http://globalistan.org/the-dalits-of-europe/ http://globalistan.org/the-dalits-of-europe/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:29:31 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=183 While reading Pardeep Singh Attri’s account of his experiences as a Dalit activist traveling in Hungary in the brilliant Insight Young Voices blog, I was struck by the similarity of the plight of Hungarian Romas and the Dalits ( regarded as Untouchables) in India. Both groups are victims of deep and persisting discriminations arising from […]

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]]> http://globalistan.org/the-dalits-of-europe/feed/ 3 Ian Buruma on Enlightenment, Language and Multiculturalism http://globalistan.org/ian-buruma-on-enlightenment-language-and-multiculturalism/ http://globalistan.org/ian-buruma-on-enlightenment-language-and-multiculturalism/#respond Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:10:38 +0000 http://www.globalistan.org/?p=135 I spent a large part of today watching Prof. Ian Buruma’s brilliant lecture series at Princeton university entitled ‘No Divine Rights: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents’ which I am posting here. Buruma is a scholar of great versatility. His subjects range from a fictional-biography of an Indian cricketer-prince, to works on European and Japanese […]

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