Do you think that our society, and/or the world, is secularizing, or not?

According to Wikipedia the population of non-religion people is growing from 1990 (14.3 million) to 2001 (29.4 million) and 2008 (34.1 million).
I think the big majority of people are followers in this world. So there are still a lot of people who believe what the religion leader tells them to do and when it becomes to a conflict in their life, they simply follow the leaders’ ideas. We find a lot of very reliable people among this group but it does not oppose finding a lot of reliable people among non-religious people.

The other group of people that is expanding quickly mostly look for more scientific reasons for any event in the life.

The structure of the life has been changing rapidly and the number of people that cannot find their needs through a religion is increasing. One of the reasons is people can talk about their ideas in some parts of the world like modern country without fear and also people are smarter today than past because they study the history and the role of religion. Look at all the biases that affected people’s lives through the history by religious leaders!!!!

Today life is based on science and that is what religion is missing. So in my opinion, people get less and less from religion and become more and more spiritual or secular. Human is exploring all different type of energy and figuring out the energy of the universe. Human being needs to be connected to the resource of the existing. I hope my sharp opinions do not offend anybody. I strongly believe in pluralism and respect every single person from any background in the globe.

Understanding Relations between Ethnic Groups – Rwanda

http://www.mazalien.com/ghosts-of-rwanda.html


Ethnic conflict such as Genocide is one the most horrifying and inhumane things that can happen. As Carl Wilkens mentions in his interview “ people either have a very humane side or very devil side” and when Dallaire says when he went to talk to Hutu’s commanders and he felt he is not talking to human there bunch of evils in front of him; it shows the depth of darkness of the event.

Unfortunately it is happening over and over in different part of the world and there has not been any plan established to stop it. In my opinion it is mostly social education especially for poor people to make them aware of equality of genes in order to becoming a devil or an angel. We have seen the experiments of “A Class Divided” or “The Stanford prison”. People can become so cruel by having power or just the right to dominate other people. As we in the experiment of Ms. Elliot “A class divided” after people become educated they act differently. So awareness can be very helpful. When that Hutu Farmer talks about what they have been told by Hutu Commanders about the history of Tutsis to convince them that it is all right to kill them, it is self-explanatory that ordinary people can be so influenced so easily by false information. Some commanders can brainwash their people and estimulae them sociologically to use them to kill the others.

How does global inequality affect our lives as individuals?

How do we measure inequality and what is an accurate method to measure it? I think it does not matter…. It is obvious… there is a big gap and a very clear growing inequality between world citizens. In my opinion, there are different aspects of inequality and consequently different effects, Economy, morality, and education.
According to “Branko Milanovic” one of the lead economists in the “World Bank” “Inequality has increased between nations over the last half century (richer countries have generally grown faster than poorer countries)”. As we read in the text book “Introduction to Sociology” Capitalism is growing fast across the world. The affect of Capitalism even in China makes big differences in individuals’ life directly. But Capitalism itself can not make equality in the world. As the text book mentions, “almost 50% of the countries around the world are Technology Adaptors”. These countries usually have old fashion cultures that are mostly based on punishment vs. encouragement and do not provide a proper environment for creativity and innovation for their people. Capitalism can grow based on freedom and human’s creativity otherwise it will go to the wrong side of the road and will be misleading for people in those societies and it is happening in some of the eastern countries especially middle east. This type of semi capitalism happens in the wrong culture base and encourages people to make money without being creative and innovative. It makes a lot of consumers with a lot of false competition. This also can lead some groups toward war and terrorism and put people’s life in danger around the world. Technology innovators spend to be prepared to defend their countries against the war. That money could be spent in researches and health insurance, education, and etc to make happier life for individuals. So we see when people in some part of the world don’t have enough facilities and common wealth to be innovative for their own countries would get involve with other countries in a wrong way and make a lot of troubles for everybody. Dictator governments such as China, Iran, Jordan, and such can make life measurable for their own people and other people around the world. Dictatorships can survive if and only if people are not educated enough too fight with it. People need to be educated to learn how to be confident and creative. People around the worl deserve for that type of education. Our goal should be making a map all the same color to live peacefully and happy.

http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/index.php