The article “Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North and Cold War Ideology” is an analytical article. It analyses the period during the existence of the Soviet Union. It takes a keen interest of the western scholarship on the smaller indigenous communities or rather groups of people of the Northern Russia, the Far East and how they were shaped by the cold war ideology. The article analyses how the ideology of the cold war distorted the representations of the Soviet Union policies towards the people of the Northern Hemisphere and further the consequence of those distortions.
The units of analysis in the article “Indigenous Peoples of the Russian North and Cold War Ideology” are the groups of people in the Northern Russia. The groups in the Northern Russia are used to measure the effects of the cold war ideology from this paper.
The research statement or the thesis of this paper is finding out the effects of the distortions of the cold war ideologies of the smaller groups of the people the Northern Russia. Finding out what the minorities who lived in the North faced as an outcome of the standoff between the communist nations of the Soviet Union and the capitalist nations lead by the United States of America. The paper epitomizes the challenges and hardships of the people who mainly were in the nations referred to as nationalities.
The study is a cross sectional study of the cold war ideologies to the nationalities states. The Marxism-Leninism official ideology of the Soviet Union’s nations was that capitalism was based on exploitation of workers as such capitalism was totally banned in the soviet states. The study cross examine how the former soviet state owned all major forms of production, communication and were of the opinion that the communist way of governance as a democratic and fair practice.
The theoretical basis for the socialist nation was that based on the idea “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need”. While that for the western societies was based freedom to have opinions and publicly express them be it political, religious and the rights to own property among others.
The people of the Northern Russia have been the subject of studies for many years and while many published studies have been biased this paper actually captures the true position of the people of the Northern Russia and the outcomes of the cold war. From them it can be concluded that educational and occupational opportunities have in numerous ways expanded since the cold war.
The paper “Xenophilia, Gender, and Sentimental Humanitarianism” is an exploratory paper. The paper explores the topic of gender and it implications, the subject of Xenophilia and what it entails and finally a look at the whole issue of sentimental humanitarianism.
The paper use people as the unit of analysis in the quest to demystify the subjects of gender, xenophobia and sentimental humanitarianism. The paper looks at how the refugees and immigrants in the United States are treated. The people looks at how these refugees are treated or welcomed to the place of alyssum. People are used to objectify the context of the paper by Patricia Owens “Xenophilia, Gender, and Sentimental Humanitarianism”
The research question or the thesis statement from the paper “Xenophilia, Gender, and Sentimental Humanitarianism” is one that is founded on finding out the treatment of people of various genders, what the effects of xenophillia and xenophobia are and the issue of human compassion in treatment of other people.
The paper is a comparative analysis treatment of majorly the refugees in the United States after the incident of September 11th. The historical aspect highlighted at the beginning of the article compares how the refugees are treated after the world wars and the more recent global efforts regulate the flow of immigrants.
The theoretical basis of this paper are based on components of humanitarianism and the effects of war on the victims in pursuit of places of asylum.
The main conclusions from this paper “Xenophilia, Gender, and Sentimental Humanitarianism” are addressed in the final section where the broad conversation about the elements and the ethics of compassion are discussed. The subject of sentimental empathy is also emphasized to those suffering from immigrant identity challenges
Works Cited
Owens, Patricia A. "Xenophilia, Gender, And Sentimental Humanitarianism". Alternatives: Global, Local, Political 29.3 (2004): 285. Web. 12 Apr. 2016.
"Indigenous Peoples of The Russian North And Cold War Ideology". N.p., 2016. Print.
