What type of Kurdistan???

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[Diri]

I agree Kassem... tell me - you don't speak Kurdish at home? Well I have been living in Norway since I was 6 years old... So I was educated in Kurdish language, gramar, geography, history and even elememts of song and other artistic things at school - I don't mean to say that I am any better at it - what I am trying to say is that I have a broad vocabulary and have a wide range of terminology for different subjects - this may be because my parents never allowed us to speak any other language but Kurdish at home... This has helped me alot...


But please say you don't believe the gouvernment in exhile is made by the PKK - the only one I know of is the one that the Syrian Kurds made and then that was the doing of Bedirxan and others... That was a long time ago though... and now the Syrian Kurds have again opend a government in exhile...

We must start making a standard for Kurdish - at least there is a standard for both Sorani and Kurmanji, BUt we must make a NEW and improved version WHICH should be a mix of all the Kurdish dialects... that is the most fair way to do it... If not people will feel left out and we musent discriminate... Zazaki and Gorani...

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[Emmunah]

The MBA stands for Master's of Business Administration. My concentration is in the Management of innovation technology. I have a degree in psychology, and I wanted to get my MBA so I could help people learn how to succeed no matter where they live in the world.

Kurdistan will not modernize all at once, just like India or China or Estonia did not. The cities in India, are modern in places and not in others. The rural areas in India are still there, and in rural China, everything is the same, but not in the cities, because there you can get the wireless, the satelite dishes, the internet, cell phones, cell cameras ect...

It may take 100 years to make all of Kurdistan modern, but it will be modern in the cities within 10 years. There is almost no way to stop it unless the terrorists win and then....well...let's not go there. Take a look at pictures of Hawler today, see the sat dishes, notice how so many people refer to text messages, and see how the companies are coming there, and to other cities and putting up their own electricity because of the outages? All of these things will make it impossible for the students in university, the people in the cities and eventually other Kurdish cities to stay in the past.

Education improves the standing of women, and also, while Islam is a wonderful religion, it needs more liberal interpretation (just my opinion). You can give intensive Kurdish language classes using streaming video and powerpoint. I would love to have a class like that. I know of a guy who teaches English to indonesian kids on the internet. He prepares an "impatica" presentation to go along with his words on powerpoint slides, and then everyone repeats the words. Their daily assignments are to use these words in a in a sentence with the proper verb tense. Every day they write these sentences on a chalkboard and then put them one by one into the single computer the school owns, as their submitted assignment. Cool huh?

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[Diri]

Kassem - Where do you live? I am just asking because your conseption of the Kurds in Europe living in "ghetto"(in some cases true) and not learning to use computers... Howcome you think in this manner? I mean - The only people who mostly don't know how to operate a PC are elders... and well they won't bother to learn that now... But Kurdish youth is very active in Europe - but sadly often in the wrong enviroments such as gangs etc.

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[Vladimir]

That they aren't interested in computers is not the point, it's more worse they hang out on streets and don't do something usefull with their lives. They are assimilated by subcultures of "music".. probably most of the times hip hop.
And others get assimilated by religion and have no interest in Kurdish history or their nationality.

[Emmunah]

Kassem....that's why I spend so much time encouraging people, prodding people and probably annoying people. I wish to inspire them to be better, and some will, and some won't...but when they see other Kurds who are not rich, moving forward and succeeding then I think more will give it a try.

Management of innovation is the study of how to create an environment where people can see things in a new light. This is sometimes called "thinking outside the box"...it involves project management, information technology, cross-functional and horizontal integration of different disiplines such that each specialized person can collaborate with other specialists and combine things that did not seem to have anything to do with one another, but, when looked at with new eyes from a different perspective or disipline, can put two different technologies together and innovate.

For example: You know the sony walkman invention? It used to be that there were headphones and large "boom boxes", but Sony put the people that made headphones and the people that made these portable music boxes together and they came up with this idea that maybe people would like to listen to music as they went for a run, or when they took a walk, ect... So they made a miniture stereo, and minature headphones and the sony walkman was born. It took two different Hierarchical divisions, one that made just headphones and the other that made just stereo boxes to work together and make a new innovation.

The psychology is how to make people think creatively, how to get them to notice patterns, and how to take the political animal out of the equation as much as possible to get people to work together.

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[Emmunah]

You don't have to know powerpoint. The teacher in the US knows powerpoint. The person in the classroom in Indonesia only knows enough to turn on the computer, click on the email, download the presentation and show it to the students. The students, after writing on the chalk boards go to the keyboard and copy what is on their chalkboards onto Microsoft Word, and the teacher attaches that to an email, and sends it back to the teacher in the US. This allows even the kid that doesn't know computers or english, to learn both a little at a time.

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[Emmunah]

I am hoping that the Armenians and the Kurds here can open up a community center. Just a small one. This would be a place to have events. Right now, there is only a community center for Kurds in London I think.

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