Future scholars writing histories of international relations theory will
certainly spare a chapter for the spate of recent obituaries
mourning—some in sorrow, others in glee—the so-called liberal order.
These obituaries are the latest entries in a decades-long paradigm
debate over the ability, and responsibility, of democracies to spread
their ideals elsewhere. Amid the global rise of nationalism and
authoritarian populism, including in the West, the skeptics—those who
argue that the appeal of liberal democracy may not be universal and
anyone acting on the international stage would be wise to keep that in
mind—have recently take the upper hand.
Berlin – A look into the room of a first class in Berlin. There is no child sitting on the wooden stools where German is spoken at home.
At 15 it is Arabic, two Turkish, one Spanish, Croatian and Thai.
An exception?
Not in the Berlin district Neukölln (just under 330 000 inhabitants). Headmaster Astrid-Sabine Busse (61) is now sounding the alarm, saying: “We are Arabized!”
103 first graders came to their “school on the Kölln Heath” in the summer – including one child with German parents. At two other schools in the district, there are a total of two children out of 109 ABC shooters, for whom German is the mother and family language.
Butcher has a high-school diploma and a résumé filled with low-wage jobs from Target and Walmart to a local grocery store. He’s being selective as he searches for new work because he doesn’t want to grind out unhappy hours for unsatisfying compensation.
“I’m very quick to get frustrated when people refuse to pay me what I’m worth,” he said. His choosiness could be a generational trait, he allows. His mother worked to support her three kids, whether she liked her job or not.
“That was the template for that generation: you were either working and unhappy, or you were a mooch,” he said. “People feel that they have choice nowadays, and they do.”
There is no one explanation for what’s sidelining men — data suggest overlapping trends — but Butcher sits at a revealing vantage point. His demographic has seen the single biggest jump in nonparticipation among prime-age men over the past two decades: About 14 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds with just a high-school degree weren’t in the labor force in 2016, up from 6.4 percent in 1996, according to Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City analysis by economist Didem Tuzemen.
Overestimation of thier worth due to the “everyone gets a trophy” effect. I’ve seen this in younger generation for a while now. I didn’t get selective about my work until I was >45 with 20 years experience, a masters degree in engineering and repeated praise from customers. I worked all kinds of low paying jobs during high school and all through college (cutting lawns/shoveling snow, delivering papers, courier, security guard, retail in bookstore, lab technician, machinist, technical writer/archivist) and I didn’t even have kids to support then.
I realise this is a horrendous thing to
say, and I can only offer my insincere apologies to all the radical
feminists now exploding with rage as they read my shocking statement.
If there’s one thing they loathe even more than the M-word, it’s the longer M-word.
But why?
Masculinity simply means ‘having qualities or appearances traditionally associated with men.’
That’s it, nothing more sinister.
Yet
thanks to women of radical feminist persuasion who’ve gleefully
hijacked the #MeToo and #TimesUp campaigns to serve their own man-hating
purpose, masculinity has become the most controversial, detestable word
in the English lexicon.
CultML 