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If soldiers – and, by extension, all “real” men – are strong and daring, then real women should be the antithesis: passive, obedient, and in need of protection as “good” wives, sisters, and mothers.
I can imagine that if the Dutch had been there protecting Dutch women and children, they would not have been as passive.
Indeed, they were not completely passive when confronted with the problem of saving their own lives or of negotiating the release of some of their comrades who were taken hostage by the Serbs.
Russians of all walks of life have shown that they prefer passive adaptation over protest.
Nor have they been completely passive.
Some of these now call for passive resistance and civil disobedience.
But for this anchor to work, Islam must be liberated from its traditionally subservient, passive and docile posture in the face of modernity.
The students are right to be frustrated that most university endowments have so far been passive on the issue, neither divesting nor engaging as active investors.
But passive support is not enough.
As then, people remain passive and uncommitted.
Leading international marketplaces are dominated by institutional investors, a growing share of which are passive index followers that lack incentives to invest in governance oversight.
Last year alone, passive funds grew 4.5 times faster than actively managed funds, narrowing the gap between the $23.9 trillion in actively managed assets and $6.7 trillion in passively managed assets.
The rise of passive investors, such as Vanguard Asset Management, is facilitated by the same regulators who are encouraging the relaxation of listing standards for SOEs, as they seek to ensure lower management fees in the asset-management industry.
With the expansion of passive investing set to continue, it is plausible that international institutional investors will have even less incentive to monitor governance in the long term.
In fact, many different dynamics co-exist and are still in flux; the EU still has the chance to shape the emerging post-Western world order, rather than accepting its parameters with passive resignation.
Does this mean that the world's two great central banks should not only be passive, but mute?
In France, by contrast, Jacques Chirac’s globally passive leadership was followed by Sarkozy’s energetic but ultimately disappointing single term in office and Hollande’s irresolute, lackluster leadership.
When it comes to Facebook, moreover, users are not just passive consumers, given that the company traffics in their data.
Much of this was foreseeable, and could have been prevented if those who should have known better had not remained passive.
Ever since the 2012 “Shareholder Spring,” shareholders have stopped acting as passive recipients of companies’ reports or obedient rubber-stampers of their plans and pay packages, and started actively and publicly questioning board decisions, airing grievances, and submitting proposals for change.
So, when Putin invaded and annexed Crimea last year, open or latent dissenters had two options left: “exit” (by emigrating or withdrawing into private life) or express “loyalty” (through active or passive displays of acquiescence).
Increasingly, passive support for Putin and his policies is no longer enough; the regime demands expressions of wholehearted approval, while imposing rules for government-approved behavior.
In other words, patients can and should stop being the passive “sick” and actively engage to pressure clinicians, researchers, and drug developers to adapt or perish.
This does not mean that the US needs to be passive.
It will pay still more if policymakers remain passive about China’s destructive currency policy.
Thus some of the biggest investors – both passive and strategic – in financial markets in the coming years will be government institutions.
Some, like Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation, prefer passive and diversified investments with no controlling stake in companies.
By taking an essentially passive position, this approach might merely prolong the Age of Terrorism needlessly.
The constant reduction of the prerequisites for making sense of culture may confirm the view that consumers of mass culture are passive.
Of course, there are exceptions, but the dominant mode is a passive one: "Nobody told me to".
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