Sunday, October 01, 2006
New Month Same Old Stuff
BiH Election Update
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564815657418754045
Another BiH Election Update
Update on Catholic/Orthodox Talks
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=9576
Bosnians Vote Today
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/01/bosnia.elections.reut/index.html
Catholic/Orthodox Negotiations Going Well
http://www.saukvalley.com/news/296364793992223.bsp
Other news related to religious issues and gestures as well. It reveals there is more religious ferment in Florida than I had suspected.
Gorachev Defends Muslims
http://www.dawn.com/2006/10/01/int7.htm
and a bonus, Gorbačov visiting with Mesić
Gorvačov in Croatia
http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20061001/index.asp
Interesting Educational Venture in BiH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5388416.stm
Similar things were tried on a small scale in Northern Ireland. I don't know what's going on with this sort of thing there now, but one thing I do think is an important factor in peace is for children to not be taught three totally seperate histories. It remains to be seen how well that side of it is going to work. The young people may well go home and here 'it's not true' from their parents. Maybe adolescent rebellion can be made to work in this instance. Still I think adolescent rebellion is much more of an American thing than a European thing.
I think there is always going to be a seperate take on many things between Muslims, Croats and Serbs in Bosnia, I don't think that is the real root of the problem. The problem is how to get along outside one's own community. Bosnians must at one time have done so because the rate of intermarriage between ethnicities was once very high.
Many Bosnians then are of mixed background. Not all but many.
I think the real problem is that whatever intermarriage occurs the benefit to society is lost because the child takes the ethnicity and religion of the father in nearly all cases. There is no recognition of mixed ethnicity. A recognition of mixed ethnicity might be the best thing for Bosnia.
I note that this school uses the International Bacclaureate Program, this is something my children had in their high school. Both ended up dropping out of the program because the academic pressure rivaled university level classes at times. They finished out in normal classes.
My daughter never attended college, she married and continued in the job she started in her last year of high school. My son did some college but never finished. He ended up going to work.
If the young people in this program are in a situation where their needs are looked after that would take off a lot of the pressure.
I also think multiethinic education needs to start at younger ages because who we are is largely formed by high school age.
It's a valid point that children in BiH are not taught to question their own viewpoints much. That is true for a lot of the world, and it's not education unless you can question your own opinions, and be a bit of a truth seeker.
OK after all of that seriousness you need some funnyness, and our friend Radmila not Radmila has something nice for you!
Johnathan
http://nevena1.blogspot.com/
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=WORLD&ID=564815657418754045
Another BiH Election Update
Update on Catholic/Orthodox Talks
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=9576
Bosnians Vote Today
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/01/bosnia.elections.reut/index.html
Catholic/Orthodox Negotiations Going Well
http://www.saukvalley.com/news/296364793992223.bsp
Other news related to religious issues and gestures as well. It reveals there is more religious ferment in Florida than I had suspected.
Gorachev Defends Muslims
http://www.dawn.com/2006/10/01/int7.htm
and a bonus, Gorbačov visiting with Mesić
Gorvačov in Croatia
http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20061001/index.asp
Interesting Educational Venture in BiH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/5388416.stm
Similar things were tried on a small scale in Northern Ireland. I don't know what's going on with this sort of thing there now, but one thing I do think is an important factor in peace is for children to not be taught three totally seperate histories. It remains to be seen how well that side of it is going to work. The young people may well go home and here 'it's not true' from their parents. Maybe adolescent rebellion can be made to work in this instance. Still I think adolescent rebellion is much more of an American thing than a European thing.
I think there is always going to be a seperate take on many things between Muslims, Croats and Serbs in Bosnia, I don't think that is the real root of the problem. The problem is how to get along outside one's own community. Bosnians must at one time have done so because the rate of intermarriage between ethnicities was once very high.
Many Bosnians then are of mixed background. Not all but many.
I think the real problem is that whatever intermarriage occurs the benefit to society is lost because the child takes the ethnicity and religion of the father in nearly all cases. There is no recognition of mixed ethnicity. A recognition of mixed ethnicity might be the best thing for Bosnia.
I note that this school uses the International Bacclaureate Program, this is something my children had in their high school. Both ended up dropping out of the program because the academic pressure rivaled university level classes at times. They finished out in normal classes.
My daughter never attended college, she married and continued in the job she started in her last year of high school. My son did some college but never finished. He ended up going to work.
If the young people in this program are in a situation where their needs are looked after that would take off a lot of the pressure.
I also think multiethinic education needs to start at younger ages because who we are is largely formed by high school age.
It's a valid point that children in BiH are not taught to question their own viewpoints much. That is true for a lot of the world, and it's not education unless you can question your own opinions, and be a bit of a truth seeker.
OK after all of that seriousness you need some funnyness, and our friend Radmila not Radmila has something nice for you!
Johnathan
http://nevena1.blogspot.com/
# posted by Katja R. @ 7:12 AM 
