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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
  Who Are They?
This is the first post after a much-needed rest from my short-lived blogging career. And I want to end with a question. Currently, I'm reading "Birds Without Wings," a novel that highlights the effects of World War I and Empire-Hungry-European Nations on a small, peaceful, quiet, quite idyllic village somewhere in the Ottoman Empire. Its perspective is one that I haven't found in history books or novels, because this is a look at Britain and France and everything Western from a community who are Greek Christains, Greek Muslims, Turkish Christains and Muslims living together and don't know that these Super Powers exist until 1900. These are a people and a culture whose perspectives have been marginalized in Wester history. There have been millions of these people, and some of their stories are being brought to life in literature and inclusive history. Because of this, we have a fuller understanding and more interesting view of what has happened. But, let's return to today and how we create history. Living in a globalized society with AIM, hotmail, podcasts, YouTube, etc., and a stark-raving mad media leaves little room for people to be intentionally left out. I used to read a blog written by an Iranian woman who focused on women's issues and modernity and etc. There are so many megaphones from which to be scream! All people need is the technology. So, does our world allow for marginalized groups? If so, who are they?
 

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