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Tibet is touted to be a land of peace and quiet. Its reputation is that of timeless tranquility. Its people are of heightened consciousness, at peace with the world. Amid blue skies and cinematic vistas, its image is bliss. Tibet conjures up the exact concept of ethereal purity. It may not necessarily be this dreamscape, though. In Foreign Policy, Christina [...]

The social investigation was conducted by Freedom House. The organization’s Freedom in the World report entitled Worst of the Worst: The World’s Most Repressive Societies 2009 enumerates the bottom 21 countries and territories with regards to repression of human freedom. Here are some of the worst of hell on earth: North Korea is the nadir of freedom [...]

Many people have agreed that racial ideology has caused the impoverishment of great numbers of people at tremendous cost, as well as the decline of their quality of life. When the matter of race is defined, applied, and institutionalized in everyday life, racial ideology happens. At this point, the matter of race becomes a scientific, religious, and [...]

There are indicators of socioeconomic well-being, and all these are materially measured. They may all contribute positively to a person’s comfort, convenience, mobility, freedom, and further opportunity in life. On the other hand, these material manifestations are not distributed equally in society. That is why if these provide advantage to one person [...]

Pride renders in a proud man’s mind the idea that he has more rights than others, since he is deemed to be in a superior position. He, therefore, has the right to amass wealth more than the others. Pride leads to greed and gluttony, two more deadly sins, because pride gives the false impression that it is alright to gain more and merit more. The [...]

In “Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life,” Annette Lareau states that a person is a cultural product and his eventual influence on his society is also cultural. While everyone starts out on equal footing in the arena of the family, the social and economic factors inherent in one’s world will dictate who or what the person will be. [...]