Humiliation
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To the average Saudi, the initiative appears as either a sell-out or the prelude to a fresh Arab
humiliation.
But, for India, that conflict was a
humiliation
that has rankled the country for more than a half-century.
Wars provide the opportunity for
humiliation
in very stark ways, because defeat on the battlefield tends to bring not just ridicule and derision, but also clear losses, particularly of territory.
This reflects the Chinese Communist Party’s broader use of China’s “century of humiliation,” which allegedly ended only when the CCP established the People’s Republic in 1949, to fuel a resurgent nationalism.
With nationalism on the rise across Asia, leaders have strong incentives to craft a version of history that advances their cause, and few historical memories are as effective for this purpose as those of traumatic
humiliation.
After World War I, when Europe failed to address adequately its legacy of humiliation, the results were catastrophic.
He deliberately projects an image of himself as a leader who speaks truthfully, conveying a muscular ideology that articulates the sense of
humiliation
that Muslims feel today and offers a plan of action to remedy the situation.
This is the core of bin Laden’s appeal: the ability to articulate the profound sense of injustice and
humiliation
that many Arabs and Muslims feel today.
Greece experienced collectively the treatment Britain’s poor receive when they claim benefits at Job Centers, where they must accept responsibility for their
humiliation
by affirming condescending platitudes such as: “My only limitations are the ones I set for myself.”
Other academic disciplines have looked rather smugly at the public
humiliation
of their colleagues in economics.
As a result, one prisoner in exchange for a thousand Palestinian prisoners is neither a
humiliation
nor a surrender, but an acceptable agreement that acknowledges, even on behalf of the enemy, the military capacity of Israeli soldiers.
The problem is that, even if Trump and Kim recognize the corner into which they have painted themselves, neither has the political space to backpedal on their threats without risking serious domestic and international
humiliation.
Unsurprisingly, this
humiliation
fueled rage within increasingly fragmented societies, with some groups concluding that they must wage a holy war against the Western infidels.
And, like de Gaulle, Putin has sought to rescue his country from
humiliation
and defeat by carving out a role consonant with popular feelings of national mission and pride, with national interest interpreted as “sovereignty.”
What followed were many hours of harassment, humiliation, threats with live hand grenades, shots fired at the feet of one of our colleagues, and looting and ransacking of the IRC premises.
The resulting
humiliation
and blatant mistrust that Russia’s elite has felt ever since has led them to their current policy of rearmament.
Last month in Australia, a major-league football player was fined, suspended, and – as a result of intensive negative coverage in the press – experienced profound public
humiliation.
While the manifestations and causes of poverty differ, the
humiliation
that accompanies it is universal.
And in Uganda, poor high school students say the inability to pay fees, purchase uniforms, or obtain school supplies is a constant source of
humiliation.
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has proved highly adept at turning even the worst international
humiliation
into a propaganda victory for the Kremlin, neither outcome would have been particularly devastating.
Likewise, anthropological work across a great range of societies clearly describes emotions of sadness that develop in response to frustration in love,
humiliation
by rivals, or the inability to achieve valued cultural goals.
In this sense, the legacy of China's
humiliation
at the hands of the West and Japan in the 19th and early 20th centuries still exerts a powerful influence, despite the emergence of a globalized "New China" over the last two decades.
The Maoist ideological mindset grew out of Lenin's theory of imperialism, which, aided by endless barrages of propaganda against capitalism, colonialism, and foreign hegemony, tended to reinforce the sense of national
humiliation.
Another is that he came to resent the West, owing to the
humiliation
of the stalled EU accession process and his own authoritarian ambitions, which he finally pursued in earnest after the failed military coup in the summer of 2016.
As violence is strictly a private matter, relinquishing justice to state institutions could be an unacceptable
humiliation.
They were only too willing to advise Europe to work harder and spend less, as legitimate pride mingled with an understandable desire to settle historical scores and attenuate their legacies of colonial submission and
humiliation.
Only one-party rule would guarantee the continuing rise of China and put an end to centuries of national
humiliation.
With the North’s new leader Kim Jong-un feeling the heat of that technical humiliation, there is now every reason to be concerned that another nuclear-weapon test, or some other chest-beating military antic, is imminent.
But, more important, the EU does not remind Russians daily of their post-Soviet losses and
humiliation
on the global stage in the same way that the US does.
But systematic
humiliation
of Palestinians, by allowing settlers to get away literally with murder, has a corrupting effect on Israeli society.
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