Egyptian man names daughter "Facebook"

I can see someone naming their kid after a person that played a major part in their life, but to name your kid after a fucking social network site lol smh.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/02/21/egypt.child.facebook/

 

Didnt the facebook play some part in the revolution? in fact major part, so that might be why. Better than blk folks naming their kids diamond & Mercedes, lol

 

Thats the reason, but still, its a fucking social networking site....
Mercedes>>>>>Facebook

 

Hey I would rather name my kid with a site that helped to topple a dictator of 30 or 40 yrs and now my ppl get a chance in a better life, than a car where the designers probably think of me less of a human, come on bruh man get with speed, lol.

 

Then he needs to back away from the computer.

 

I think facebook played a part, yet I am skeptical that it played a major part.

I think what indeed played the most part was the election of Barack Hussein Obama as the president of the United States. That singular fact, and the more interesting fact that he is married to a black woman opened the eyes of many that had been subjugated along class lines, yet still identified with their nations on ethnic sentiments.

The Arab countries for once perceived America in a new light and saw the ideal that American seemed to promote in their countries, but could not intuitively understand. That image alone wins minds than brute force.

Yes social media, facebook, twitter and rest of them seemed to have played a part. But it all started with the internet, the information revolution that has seen to it that boundaries are being broken and nations are becoming borderless. Most baby boomer reporters that set the agenda in the western press don't have a grasp/clue of these issues that dot many national landscapes around the world.

Yes, facebook played a part in the organization of protest and ease of communication. Still the idea of what freedom is began when they saw a black man could become the president of the world . That can be a mind changing phenom around the world.

 

LoL, Barack Hussein Obama, the saint, the apostle, the healer, the teacher, the warrior.........the man who can walk on the water, heal the sick, raise the dead, feed the poor, does it again- this time folks he frees the oppressed!! Get on the phone stat, let's call the Swedes, the Danes and Norwegians, the man deserves another round of Nobel Peace Prize.

C'mon bruh, you appear to be an intelligent Nigerian brother. Obama's election has small fraction to none to do it with it. The whole thing started in Tunisia, those guys dont even consider themselves as African, they think they are white french. The whole Arab nation revolution has to do with the ppl being sick and tired of the dictators and their economy than the fast talking chicago politician Obama.

Dont get me wrong, I kinda like Bama for different reason, but I get irritated when ppl try to make him like he is Fredrick Douglas, Malcom X or Mandela

 

He is not and he has no sacrificed anything. In that sense he is an opportunist.

I understand your argument, but my argument is more nuanced that what you have it to be. I did not say Barack Obama, I said his election and the what it represented. This has more to do with the how people now viewed the ideal that America pursued in other parts of the world. It helped folks understand it more intuitively.

No one alone can shape the world. Culmination of events help shape the world and its ideas. Obama's election is one of the those events, and it might have resulted in a paradigm shift. I like Obama too, but not because of who he is, but because of what he represents.

To be honest, my values align more with conservative political ideas than with the liberals, and that goes with a little tweaking. So I am a bit removed from his idealistic notions of government and non-committal fashion he engages than take a stand and damn the consequence.

 

well scratch that off my list of daughters names....i was going for original

 

Exactly.

I don’t want this to be Obama bashing thread, but Bama was at the right place and right time, that’s all.
I personally think he would been able to govern the country better if he spent a little more time in the senate floor or had some executive experience. He came in after Bush done fucked up the country and the country has been a mess for a decade or so. Two wars at our plate, banks going under, etc… Now he is getting blamed for not fixing it well or not fixing it fast.

Anyhoo, Obama’s story is a hell of inspiring one-born to Muslim African student with an F-1 student visa, & teenage mother. Spent his 1st few years of life in a country other than the one he run to govern, ppl questioning his citizenship and religious affilation daily, his first name rhymes with USA public enemy # 1, his middle name rhymes with USA public enemy # 2, raised by single mom and grand parents who don’t have the same skin hue as his in a Midwestern state with southern touch. Father not around, then gets killed in MVA, loses mother at young age. All his siblings have either different mother or father than him, admitted experimenting with drugs when young. And most of all he does not come from money. I think all these things are inspiring and minority kids should be aquinanted to his story (read his books, etc..). Other than that I think he has little to none to do freeing North African nations.

 

Furthermore, Obama did not elect himself. The American people did. That is a distinction. If the world sees and identifies with Obama, it is not who he is per se , but what he represents in the hopes and aspirations of millions of people around the world. The notion that if he can do it, then they should have that environment to replicate same is they strive for whatever they want.

America' seems to now be more of an action oriented country as opposed to too much theories, and philosophizing.I guess you can leave the French to do a lot of their theorizing and philosophizing. I come from Africa and seeing rise from grass to grace play out in Obama's case translates from a movie to reality. It is instructive and enlightens many on the practice of democracy, even though the seeds might take more time to germinate in Africa, it has caught on like a bush fire in the middle east.

Also, when you consider Egypt, and other middle eastern countries, it is not that there has not be progress in the last three decades, there has been so many reforms. But what seems interesting and at the same time perplexing is that many people are getting middle class education, yet they have no matching training/education to fit jobs, or create jobs.

The educational institutions prepares them for a job market that is non existent. I think that is equally an aspect of the crisis.With education of a society comes more problems since educated class normally demand accountability.If you are not so educated, how easy is it to use Facebook to organize mass protests.

The idea persists that with more education, people become more open up minded and their ability to reason on explodes exponentially, and on multiple layers. It partly explains the critical inquiry and abandonment of religion in most western societies, and also the growing acceptance of rights for blacks, women, gays and other notional fixations such as multiculturalism.

It would be foolhardy to conclude that Obama is now god and does magical feats. What I tried to imagine is how change has arrived, seasonal change here and as sweeping tide that is washing away old order and rethinking new societies. If we reflect a bit, what has not been achieved from hard power that American exhibited around the world, is now being achieved from soft power, and the practice of image driven democracy that is evidenced by a black man in white house.

Facebook, Google, Twitter, all were not invented in India, China, or Germany.They were all invented in America. This speaks to the nature of enterprise and the resilience of the American system. The system accommodates change and it is forever reinventing itself. Government is not dominant in everyone's life and people can actualize their dreams without the totalitarian rule of government.

It is these culmination of events that have made the changes sweeping, and revolts possible in the Arab world. Fair enough, I concede the fact that arguments like mine are hard to make because they can really explain causation, but one can at least try. So take it, it is just an idea, an imagining, I might be wrong.

 

Oh geez, I'm not reading all this, Chinua Achebe. All I know is that people were "No Longer at Ease" and deemed him not "A man of the people", then revolted, at which point "Things Fell Apart" for Mubarak that sent him "Home and Exiled". get it, get it?

Such a goof I am.

 

Tirkah,

I know politics can sometimes invite base instincts, but good ethical conduct demands one exercises some degree of courtesy.You failed to read what I wrote, or offer rebuttals, yet you proceeded to be sarcastic and insulting.

Don't be a slimeball, show some spine that shows you are a man and can have an opinion. Not this ridiculous piece I am reading from you, you can do better.

It is only a wretch that will invoke shared values such as that of Chinua Achebe in a slimy manner without an opinion offer.

 

Lighten up for Shakespeare sake. It's not like I said anything offensive.

How is this for a rebuttal?

 

"Congratulations sir, it's...a website?"