Since its inception, football, commonly referred to as “soccer” in the U.S., has represented a unique platform for the public performance of identity. The football pitch has unified and divided, bound together and separated apart.
Children living in orphanages are not tourist attractions. Although COVID-19 has briefly halted the flow of orphanage tourism, this practice must be permanently brought to an end.
In theory, President Santos’ accord with the FARC, or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, had ended a 52-year civil war that had claimed the lives of some 220,000 Colombians. In practice, the war continued.
Today, wealthy countries like the United States are on the fast track to normalcy because they have stockpiled enormous vaccine surpluses before lower-income nations could access the global vaccine market.
While traditional colonial practices involved the subjugation of countries through military and political dominance, neocolonialist states leverage the pulls of conditional loans, cultural hegemony, and economic superiority to sway another country’s foreign policy.
Political turmoil continues to plague Thailand, and the country’s young people have suffered the consequences. Now, they protest for their future as much as their past.
