What do cultures respond to? Guilt, Shame, and Fear In light on recent events, I was astonished by some reactions from people sharing my ethnicity. It seems very easy for people of European decent to feel an extreme degree of guilt, for crimes and offenses they did not commit. We are so sensitive and ashamed …
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How we see the world is how we experience the world. We are all very familiar with the Mercator type map. This type of map is used in schools all across the world and is the reference on Google Maps. This map was established by Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator in 1569. Used primarily for navigation purposes, …
How ideology shapes territories: comparing capitalism and communism. The causal effect of ideology on politics and society has long been established. But what about how ideology shapes the land? Humankind has entered in the Anthropocene, climate change and sustainable development issues have never been more pressing according to our well-intentioned world-leaders at the UN. In …
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Trekboers crossing the Karoo by Charles Davidson Bell Testing the conceptual boundaries of the 1948 convention on genocide: Bad weather for the rainbow nation & the Boer case. It is no mystery that South Africa’s nation-building has been marked by racial tensions and ethnic struggles. The dominating tradition of colonialism and the apartheid system has created deep …