The Value of Self-Education and Awareness

SELF EDUCATION: Learning without Boundaries
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A) Familiarize Yourself with Important Terms
Any of these terms can be looked up at Wikipedia.com or another preferred search engine (ASK.COM, GOOGLE, DOGPILE.COM):

Misanthropy: the general dislike, distrust, or hatred of the human species or a disposition to dislike and/or distrust other people’s silent consensus about reality. A misanthrope is a person who dislikes or distrusts humanity as e general rule.

Realpolitik: (German: real “realistic”, “practical” or “actual”; and Politik “politics”) refers to politics or diplomacy based primarily on practical considerations, rather than ideological notions. The term realpolitik is often used pejoratively to imply politics that are coercive, amoral, or Machiavellian. Realpolitik is a theory of politics that focuses on considerations of power, not ideals, morals, or principles.
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Genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.

Power Politics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_politics
Power politics, or Machtpolitik (borrowed from German), is a state of international relations in which sovereigns protect their own interests by threatening one another with military, economic, or political aggression. The term was coined in Martin Wright's 1979 book of the same name, which the Times Literary Supplement dubbed the 18th most influential book since World War II.

Extreme Individualism: The promotion of the individual above the community
• http://www.uaw892.org/news/march_2002/Extreme%20Individualism.htm
• http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Individualism

Green Living: To live in harmony with one’s environment through the utilization of modest, energy efficient methods
• http://www.thegreenguide.com/
• http://www.green-living.com/
• http://greenlivingideas.com/
• http://www.greenlivingtips.com/


B) Build Your Cultural Awareness
Cultural Awareness is the key to a brighter future.
We must educate ourselves and build awareness of international affairs in order to better understand the world around us.
What to do? Research ALL POSSIBLE aspects of media, follow your moral/ethical code and make your own educated decisions:

Inspiring Sites:
• http://www.peace.org/
• http://www.sgi-usa.org/
• http://www.peacecorps.gov/
• http://www.preventgenocide.org/prevent/

• http://www.peoplebuildingpeace.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=26
  

• Mongolian Culture: The Weeping Camel
• John Cage on Silence
• John Cage's 27 Sounds Manufactured in a Kitchen
• Mahatma Gandhi
• Martin Luther King, Junior's I Have a Dream speech


THE INFORMATION LISTED BELOW IS MEANT TO EDUCATE ONLY.
THIS IS NOT MEANT TO CAUSE DEPRESSION and/or ANGER.
PLEASE RETAIN HOPE.
PEACEABLE CHANGE IS OURS TO IMPLEMENT.

TIBET:
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VRneGYpaXc
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnBkD_1N1QE&feature=related
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r58Jtg8GY2o&feature=related

o SHOCKING FOOTAGE: http://www.freetibet.org/newsmedia/200309
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtvcppN67Nw&feature=PlayList&p=2EDBE596CF1731DA&index=0&playnext=1
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7NUNwq2MGc&feature=PlayList&p=2EDBE596CF1731DA&index=1

• The Tiananmen Square Story: Who is the Unknown Rebel, you ask?
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDKVEprC948
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-nXT8lSnPQ&feature=related

ROWANDA:
o http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/04/200947181917774331.html

DARFUR:
o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwrxPXvvaCs&feature=related

o DARFUR IN 10 MINUTES:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USLDoIiFzzg&feature=related

o http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/04/200947181917774331.html
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqOJgfOdmtQ&feature=channel
o http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Darfur
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXdWDM4fmRY