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Not surprisingly, Chinese leadership was keen to avoid any reference to the last two centuries of struggle and humiliation, or to its problematic political agendas and thorny trade issues.
At the same time, it could be argued that the spectacle of the opening ceremony was intended to overcome China’s historic
humiliation
by the West and signal a new chapter.
Only when it was reclaimed would two centuries of
humiliation
at the hands of Western imperial powers and, more recently, the nascent state of Israel be reversed.
This is the true “absurdity” in the present negotiations, and Tsipras’ misapprehension of his bargaining power now risks catastrophe for his country,
humiliation
for his Syriza party, or both.
China’s potential encroachment on Russia’s unpopulated Far East borders – which, in China’s view, were stolen, much like Hong Kong and Taiwan, during its “century of humiliation” – is another source of anxiety in the Kremlin.
In The Anatomy of Fascism, Columbia University historian Robert O. Paxton writes that:“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal constraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
Can a wage dispute qualify as a “grave offense” warranting arrest and
humiliation?
This is the vengeful side of our fawning, as though the
humiliation
of worshipping idols must be balanced by our delight in their downfall.
Finally, Germany, Spain, Italy, and several northern European countries required, for domestic political reasons, a ritual
humiliation
of radical Greek politicians and voters who openly defied EU institutions and austerity demands.
Indeed, at the moment the award was handed over in Oslo, several policemen were pummeling Yu’s face, saying, “We are going to beat you to death to avenge the government’s humiliation.”
If offered nothing better than the political
humiliation
and economic constraints of second-class EU membership, perhaps they would prefer to stay out.
Arab men and women have shed the sense of
humiliation
and inferiority that despotism imposed on them – and that fostered desperation, anger, violence, and insularity.
That would mean further
humiliation
for ordinary people, who bear the brunt of corruption, as government officials and their crony capitalists continued to siphon off public funds.
But Italian women (indeed, women everywhere, it seems) feel only anger and
humiliation
over a man so obsessed with himself, his various criminal trials, and his vulgar pleasures that he appears to them to have no purpose left except to remain in power as long as possible.
Yes, Russia is emerging from its
humiliation
following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
China associates its South and East China Sea claims with the darkest period in its history – the “century of humiliation,” when foreign powers severely impinged upon its territorial integrity.
Instead of opening its nuclear efforts to some serious European participation, the
humiliation
of having to cave in to international protest would lead France away from any European solution and back into the refuge of national sovereignty.
The status of the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay and the recent incidents of possibly systematic
humiliation
and torture of Iraqi prisoners cast doubt on the very values on which a liberal order is based.
Many Chinese, however, came to view pro-Tibetan protests in Paris, London, San Francisco, Delhi, and elsewhere as an effort to sabotage the Olympics and keep China down after almost two centuries of perceived national
humiliation.
If the neo-liberal Washington Consensus has been forgotten, perhaps it wasn’t because its tenets were misguided, but because the world offered an opportunity to realize the most important of them without having to suffer the
humiliation
of a shrinking economy.
But the UK government steered clear, with the psychological and political impact of its
humiliation
proving even more significant than the financial losses incurred by the BoE.
France was pursuing its own Gaullist goal of strengthening French national prestige by inflicting damage or even
humiliation
upon the US.
The economic dislocations and the
humiliation
of proud nations were, indeed, devastating (as Greeks today can attest).
Indeed, their serene patience stands in stark contrast to the anxious reticence of Russian leaders, who have yet to surmount the
humiliation
that Russia suffered as a result of the Soviet Union’s disintegration at the end of the Cold War.
It is as if they were combining the Arab/Islamic world’s culture of
humiliation
and Asia’s culture of hope.
The media are never more enthusiastic about free speech than when they see it reddening the faces, with rage or humiliation, of those in power.
Indeed, today’s Russians have no nostalgia for the Yeltsin years, which they associate with confusion, humiliation, shame and weakness.
The diplomats surrounding Putin may find it natural, given their training, to apply the old Soviet-era methods, and may believe that the moment has come to undo yesterday’s
humiliation.
If Putin genuinely seeks to bolster Russia’s global standing, he must not allow Russians’ sense of
humiliation
in the years since the Soviet collapse to stand in the way.
In the early 1990’s, some Turkish generals saw the
humiliation
of Russian troops in Chechnya as part of a long-awaited revenge.
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