Thursday, April 30, 2009
Differing Opinions
I was sitting in one of my last classes on the History of the USSR and were just wrapping up the post-Soviet era. Out of the blue, my Professor starts to talk about Kazakhstan and when he asks for the name of the President, I was the only person to actually answer him (which I personally thought was hilarious). Yet, when he starts talking about Nazarbayev, his opinions seemed to stretch more towards the things that he hasn't done then those that he has. The only opinions that he had on Nazarbayev and some of the rest of the Central Asian leaders are former Soviet leaders that are just "dictators for life". I just found it interesting that sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can never get over a image that you had to project earlier to survive. And sometimes, people will only see the bad rather then any of the good that you do.
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I think that is something that happens all the time though. Like people say it is always easier to destroy than create, and it is always easier to judge than to be judged. I mean yea leaders do great stuff but more than likely they are going to be remembered for what they do wrong because people feed off negativity. By the way I think it is hilarious that you knew the name of the president but I am also positive that no one else would have, LOL.
ReplyDeleteScore one for Chris Robbins! I think it's pretty cool that you're able to triangulate your work on the USSR w/ this film class--they're coming together in interesting ways, clearly! Congrats!!!
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