Humiliation
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Victims of human trafficking cannot experience this type of friendship easily, because the degradation and
humiliation
they have suffered can lead them to believe they are unimportant or someone else’s property.
Naturally, Merkel offered just enough to allow Macron to disguise his
humiliation
as a personal triumph.
Although the introduction of floating exchange rates removed the incentive to borrow in a foreign currency (and thus the need for self-insurance), the political
humiliation
of losing sovereignty to the IMF – if only temporarily – was so devastating that the economic costs of building a massive foreign-currency war chest seemed worthwhile.
But military operations that kill or injure civilians often do not automatically qualify as crimes, as long as deliberately inflicting pain or
humiliation
on a helpless individual – even if he or she is an enemy – is not the aim.
They usually stem from humiliation, or the fear of
humiliation.
Fear of
humiliation
can have many causes.
Still, diplomats know that war can be preferable to humiliation, which is why saving face is just as important as threatening force – and why other countries should step in and provide the room that both sides need to avoid a head-on collision.
But, until the financial crisis, most Europeans assumed they were now far too wealthy to ever face the
humiliation
of asking the IMF for financial assistance.
But it was, above all, the sense of encirclement and
humiliation
that united the deeply divided Japanese government.
These Davids depend on Western technologies to overcome imbalances of power, and are driven by a sense of real or imagined
humiliation.
The political
humiliation
and economic frustration of dealing with IMF imperatives confirmed the central importance of maintaining large reserves, as an issue not just of currency stability, but also economic sovereignty.
Under Sweden’s so-called “Sex Purchase Law,” paying for sex is punishable by fines or up to six months in prison, plus the
humiliation
of public exposure.
But, for some men, part of the pleasure of buying sex may be the
humiliation
conferred on the woman involved.
They join a growing number of other former Israeli soldiers who have described in detail the daily injustice and
humiliation
to which Palestinians are subjected.
Resentment feeds off a sense of humiliation, a loss of pride.
But it is clear even to the US that no Iranian leader could accept the
humiliation
of surrendering the right to civilian nuclear power recognized by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran acceded when it was ruled by the Shah.
In fact, Putin often has been described as angry with the West, beset by a sense of betrayal and
humiliation
from what he perceives as unfair treatment of Russia.
Palestinians will recognize Hamas’s acceptance of a multi-year truce with Israel as a sign of defeat, which would also underscore Palestinian feelings of
humiliation
and abandonment.
PARIS – The Middle East is often viewed as a region waylaid by feelings of collective
humiliation
and violent rivalries, both between and within countries.
As an energy superpower, Russia can open its coffers to appease, at least in part, the
humiliation
that it has inflicted on its citizens by falsifying the country’s recent legislative election results.
The Arab world, too, with its ongoing revolution, may also be joining the game, overcoming the
humiliation
that had been its peoples’ animating emotional force.
Indeed, to fear, hope, and humiliation, I would now add a fourth and decisive cultural mood: modesty.
If Arab citizens could transform their culture of
humiliation
into a culture of hope, perhaps they would be able to reconcile themselves with Israel’s existence.
ISIS may be born of a culture of
humiliation
and driven by a spirit of revenge, as was Nazism, but it does not possess anything like the industrial and military resources of Germany in the 1930s.
As a result, the goal of a facial slap is not to inflict physical pain, but to induce surprise and
humiliation.
And, while males inflicted torture, degradation in the presence of women enhanced the
humiliation.
Of course, civilized countries should not give up the fight against extremist Islam because of the bloodshed in Iraq; but we must recognize that war, occupation, and forced submission to military power have merely caused mass
humiliation
and resentment among many ordinary Muslims – emotions that are then channeled into terrorist networks.
Israel’s continued
humiliation
of the Palestinians, now telecast live into hundreds of millions of Muslim homes, is generating unnecessary reservoirs of hate.
I hoped that we would have the courage to overcome our perceived
humiliation
and start looking deep into our national psyche, asking the big question, "Why did 15 of our young men attack America in so brutal a way?"
Yet the Party of Putin prefers not to see how seemingly discrete events are components of a Kremlin strategy of retribution, humiliation, and, at the very least, destabilization aimed at Europe.
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