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...Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire,” Bose’s latest work, is an intriguing read. He chooses not to focus on the European colonialists as central players in the realm of South Asia, but rather as one of the many players in a complex community...
Bose’s anecdotal examples of larger trends are particularly fascinating. For example, he shows the richness of Indian Ocean commerce by following non-European merchants and traders as they exchange pearls and cloves. A later chapter centers on the travels of poet Rabindranath Tagore to exhibit the abundance of cultural exchange and interconnectivity found in the Indian Ocean...
...comprehensive plan that would have compensated Greek Cypriots for land lost to Turks and ensured the security of Turkish Cypriots, reunifying the island under a single government. In separate referendums, 76% of Greek Cypriots rejected the plan; Turkish Cypriots voted overwhelmingly in favor. Cyprus was admitted to the European Union in 2004 as a divided island - a complicated arrangement that means while the E.U. considers all Cypriots its citizens, it only recognizes the government in the south, so its laws do not apply in the north. Efforts since then by the E.U. to ease trade and travel restrictions...
...Even America's allies here bring up Abu Ghraib all the time, as proof of how little the U.S. understands Iraq. Last year, a European diplomat told me the infamous Abu Ghraib photos-some of them featuring Sgt Cardona-"did more damage to U.S. credibility in Iraq than a Cruise missile smashing into a kindergarden...
Without any frame of reference for his trip, it runs perilously close to yet another “look, those racist middle Americans are crazy!” Given the imminent success of this film, coastal and European elites might just project the critique of American culture onto an imagined other, failing to realize that they are implicated in the whole endeavor...