Language skills remain vital to world market
US can only stay competitive through multicultural awareness
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US can only stay competitive through multicultural awareness
This weekend, a student at my university here in Hong Kong committed suicide by jumping from the top of an eight-story dormitory in broad daylight in the afternoon, a dorm I had lived in a few months ago. Numerous people saw the incident from their windows, and I have friends who saw the grieving parents of the boy as they identified the body. The news was shocking, to say the least.
In the past few weeks, a video clip has gone viral, not only around Asia, but around the West as well. This video clip, taken from a Chinese television news broadcast, shows the horrific and heartbreaking story of a two-year old girl in Foshan, China who was hit by a van, run over a second time by another car, and blatantly ignored by 18 passersby on the street before a lady collecting garbage finally came to her rescue and called for help. The entire course of events was caught on a security camera.
Very little has been more prominent in the papers in the past week than pictures of Moammar Qaddafi's mangled corpse.
In the era of a globalizing world, it is impossible to view events, even those on the smallest scales, without considering their effects on an international scale.
Lately, the front pages have been ceaselessly clogged with the goings-on of the highly debated Occupy Wall Street movement. For weeks now, throngs of people with handmade signs, strong convictions and a hope for radical change in the near future have been parading back and forth down city streets griping about a variety of different social, political and economic issues.
While some countries, such as China, are eyeing Africa's abundant natural resources, the West is largely concerned with helping Africa transition in its political systems, specifically toward democracy.
With the upcoming elections to the Swiss Parliament comes a string of strange political parties, ones that could perhaps give even some of the US's stranger parties of the past a run for their money. The crazy thing isn't the fact that these political parties are created. With only an age requirement of 18 years and a petition of 100 votes in order to obtain a spot on the ballot, it's hardly unexpected.
With that being said, YouTube has redefined entertainment. It has torn down geographical boundaries and enabled people all over the world to share their own skills, or at least what they consider as valuable abilities, with anyone and everyone. Strangers with a synthesizer and a good voice can become international celebrities overnight. Comedy can be performed from dorm rooms. Quirky talents and gritty film-making on a digital camera become internet masterpieces.
Receiving a formal higher education has long been viewed as a privilege, something given only to those who have the luxury of time and resources in their hands. Being able to study with great thinkers such as Aristotle in ancient Greece or to have one's own tutor in literature was only to be begotten by members of high society.
As Columbia gears up for a new school year, I can’t help but be envious of all the students starting or continuing their studies at USC. If there is anything I’ve come to miss since I left home to study abroad for a year in Hong Kong, it’s the excitement of being back in Gamecock Nation with the new and old friends I’ve grown so close to in the past year — swapping class schedules, setting up lunch dates at Russell House and applying for tickets to the next big football game.
All religions should receive equal treatment
Society more accepting of the ridiculous and the absurd
Students should stop to reflect on workers' self-sacrifice for international community
Corruption, negligence of participants within institution unacceptable, must be reformed
Student prices should be lower
Loss of hope, apathy in political atmosphere damaging to future
Surely all of us in America can agree, whether you're black or white, left wing or right. The fact that we live in a country founded on its liberating principles is something to celebrate. And now we have people celebrating with us. I am referring, of course, to the Egyptians, whose fight to overthrow President Hosni Mubarak finally resulted in his stepping down late last week. Now Egypt's cheers can be heard all around the world. They, too, are getting a chance at democracy.