"Is revolt contagious? Even if the political situations in Tunisia and Algeria are radically divergent, the broke hopes and dreams of a youth feeling left out of economic growth tend to produce the same results."
http://globalvoicesonline.org/2011/01/11/algeria-is-the-revolt-contagious/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyFz4TI5zdk&feature=player_embedded
These college students in Algeria and Tunisia, hopeful and eager to learn, are quickly realizing that their economic situation is nearly impossible to improve upon in the world they live in. They are protesting for equal working opportunities and to over throw the precedent of nepotism in their countries.
This same issue is beginning to arise in America as college students graduate into a broken economic system finding the jobs they went into debt training for are not available. So what is the answer? Will those students coming from colleges like BGSU begin protesting as well? Will the upper crust superiority get to us from the lower class fighting those who are put ahead because they're the next generation upper class?
And should we sit and watch while our foreign counter parts are being trod upon by a social cast system while having their basic right of voicing their opinion taken away? We have the free right to speak about our problems in a public forum and we should support those who are attempting to do the same for a better cause. Especially when that cause could soon be our own.
I suggest, if nothing else, helping them voice their opinions. Everyone should know why they're standing up and saying they want their futures back, if only because you may one day want them to do the same for you when the revolt spreads across the pond and you look around realizing they have a point.
Katelynn Mae
"Stand firm for what you believe in, until and unless logic and experience prove you wrong." -Daria
"They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."
--Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
