I am at a loss as to figure out why you need to put this guy forward or post so many pictures of him.
as for ''progress" moxie --
amazing progress....
to people around the world ...american ''progress" only means
"''here they come again -- dropping bombs on us".
It's all well and good for another country's "spokeswoman" to prefer to be addressed that way. But you have to recognize that the option to be addressed either way comes from the US and forcing a certain amount of rights for women and minorities. The US has mostly been the leader in that, and we used the notion that language and speech drives thought to put forward progressive ideas. Which has been effective. As the world moves progressively forward on many fronts, it's easy for some to say that we don't need "politically correct" speech. But think of how many racist words are no longer part of regular parlance...in many countries. It's because of that push. Women and minorities have been the beneficiaries of the US notion of "political correctness," and progressiveness, throughout the world. I'd doubt that you, Teddy, or many on this forum, would use words or expressions that perhaps our parents or grandparents would have said without a second thought. That is a change in language, which changes thought, which changes attitude. And it is progress. Many may not like "political correctness," for what they see as an imposition. But I'd bet that most of you wouldn't go back to the language or thought of 40 years ago.
you are quite wrong in one thing> that the USA HAS somehow been ''leading" in such things as ''equality". that MAY be the case in the context of the history of the USA and in fact much of the west itself...in which the notion of women as ''chattel" has been part of the culture...
and therefore americans have- like you - teh tendency to think that what THEY consider as ''advanced
s and progres" within their own societies such as ''equality of women and men" - is somehow SUCH A unique, original notion that NO ONE in the world outside had ever thought of it. and therefore comes the notions of "we are leaders".
that is not so.
come from the philippines which has traditionally had been, as far as I know, been a MATRIARCHAL society. in which it was just assumed to us -- the "real power" were women. no matter what it appears like in ''social circles". that is why it was never a problem for that country to, by now have had 2 women presidents..NOT EVEN question worth talking about ..
while in the USA -- IT IS A CAUSE CELEBRE that THE usa is about to have a WOMAN president, oh my god!!!
where women were just about like the SLAVES in being LESS completely human than the WHITE LANDED GENTRY of the USA before evne GETTING voice in eelections --
RUSSIA ALREADY was building CRIMEA , SEVASTOPOL (The naval base the USA TRIED TO GRAB LAST YEAR FROM RUSSIA by means of the regime change in KIEV that administered CRimea before the crimean/russians demanded to be 'TAKEN HOME BY MOTHER RUSSIA" for fear of what KIEV would do to them)...
WERE already the 'PEARL of the Black sea" under the direction of EMpress Catherine the GREAT....
in other words -=- to "some woman spoke "person" (in USA WESTERN NEUTER POLITICAL CORRECTNESS so as not to OFFENd any gender or sexual IDENTIFICATION) --
as you put it about the russian lade from their ministry - -Maria Zakharova...
it was not a BIG DEAL to identify something for what it IS...
A WOMAN IS A WOMAN -- NOT A \\'spokesPERSON" -
as if by calling a woman a woman is an OFFENSIVE Thing..or a MAN or a transgender might feel LEFT OUT for being called something else...
and no big deal becaUSE RUSSIA
had LONG BEEN AHEAD of YOUR united states in THE EQUALITY between women and men !
belying YOUR remark that 'WE LEAD IN matters" like these things.
which of course also reflects a HABIT of americans -- that what americans thing THEY achieved in ther society
somehow MUST be something the world HASN\'T found out before!
it is part of this mythology of american '''exceptinalism".
in which you project american ''notions" to the rest of the world -- which ALSO finds its way in your country's ''democracy exports"
'WE ARE THE FREE NATION of the world"
therefore let's BOMB countries into ACCEPTING ''FREEDOM"!
'WE are SO ahead of others we have the RIGHT to judge that they are BACKWARD and therefore need OUR teachings"
by WAR of course.
and on and on and on it goes..whiel YOU -- americans contemplate our navels calling a ''REDUCTION OF the prison population by releasing lesser count crinminals a year ahead of schedule into work-fare" is \
"progress"
even IF teh USA REMAINS AS THE EXCEPTIONAL country
for one that has 350 million in the DENSITY of PRISONERS...some ''progress?".
