Sorry. I'm not Qatari, so I should shut up. But I have a big mouth, so can't.
Everything changes. People change, societies change. This has always been the case. Discoveries are made and society reacts.
You can't hold back change. China tried, because the leadership felt threatened by the outside world. Eventually, they realised that they weren't being attacked. The world just changes, and they couldn't stop those developments from crossing their borders.
Modern-day closed countries are also trying to prevent change. North Korea, Bhurma, Zimbabwe all in some way want to freeze their societies at a certain point, or even revert their societies to some past golden age. Of course, in these countries what has happened is that the societies haven't been frozen, but have decayed due to the repressive policies.
No one owns the change. Pop music happened to US society, just as it happened to Europe, and eventually happened to the rest of the world. That doesn't mean that America owns pop music, or that all pop music is in some way American. It's just a thing that has happened in America and has happened elsewhere too.
Fashions change too. Sometimes skirts get shorter, sometimes women wear modest clothes. If you were to look back through European and American history, it would be difficult to define any clothing style that was truly British or American or French. All you can say for certain is that the fashions kept changing.
Now here's the thing. If change is going to happen whatever we do. If it's as inevitable as time itself. If you believe that things just change. Then why would you try to hold back the tide when you're going to be swept away by the tsunami of history?
Sorry. I'm not Qatari, so I should shut up. But I have a big mouth, so can't.
Everything changes. People change, societies change. This has always been the case. Discoveries are made and society reacts.
You can't hold back change. China tried, because the leadership felt threatened by the outside world. Eventually, they realised that they weren't being attacked. The world just changes, and they couldn't stop those developments from crossing their borders.
Modern-day closed countries are also trying to prevent change. North Korea, Bhurma, Zimbabwe all in some way want to freeze their societies at a certain point, or even revert their societies to some past golden age. Of course, in these countries what has happened is that the societies haven't been frozen, but have decayed due to the repressive policies.
No one owns the change. Pop music happened to US society, just as it happened to Europe, and eventually happened to the rest of the world. That doesn't mean that America owns pop music, or that all pop music is in some way American. It's just a thing that has happened in America and has happened elsewhere too.
Fashions change too. Sometimes skirts get shorter, sometimes women wear modest clothes. If you were to look back through European and American history, it would be difficult to define any clothing style that was truly British or American or French. All you can say for certain is that the fashions kept changing.
Now here's the thing. If change is going to happen whatever we do. If it's as inevitable as time itself. If you believe that things just change. Then why would you try to hold back the tide when you're going to be swept away by the tsunami of history?