What is the aim of blogging ?
Mind me guys posting this topic here. I just want to get out something from my chest which has puzzled me for quite a while. What is the aim of blogging ?
For me, it is to increase the interactions between the locals, and the outside world. I guess in the west some people (not all) see Iraqis as masked men with RPG s , and suicide bombers, and Sader Militias, etc etc (all the negative images which are shown on TV) ...
For instance, I have never seen the city of Sulaimania on any international television. Fallujah is the most famous Iraqi city after Baghdad. FUNNY !
In the 1990s during the Kurdish civil war, I met some Turkish people in Kurdistan, they said we thought that in Kurdistan they eat people alive. Because what they used to see on their televisions about Kurdistan was men in baggy trousers and a little beard, with a bushy hair, and an AK47, brandishing their guns in the air. They thought all Kurds were like that. FUNNY again !
What we have to do as bloggers, is to show the positive signs of ourselves. We are not terrorist masked men, we don't like guns, we don't like beheading, we don't like killing, we don't like suicide bombings, we don't like torturing prisoners, and some of us prefer our local Beebsi than Coca Cola (but not all) !
I know that the foreign journalists are doing their best to cover all the aspects of our lives. But we also have to do it ourselves.
This is our life in the first place, if we don't improve it ourselves, don't expect anyone to improve it for you.
6 Comments
Kurdo
What you see on TV are the screaming minority and the silent majority are busy Blogging.
LadyBird
ah yes, such a challenging task. the noble blogger dispelling myth while at the same moment creating legend.
you are right of course. people in the west no longer see Iraqi's as masked men with RPG's, but as masked writers with clandestine web habits.
Like writers who never write novels about happely marries couples - such a book wood be very boring indeed - journalists are not interested in normality, because normal situations produce no stories of interest to news-consumers.
amen kurdo,
let the only thing we destroy be the ridiculous stereotypes. it's so absolutely mind-numbing what i see people in the west regard iraqis as...they simply have little clue as to who we are. unfortunately, you're right. the media plays a distorted hand. though i do believe strongly, as you said, that we must improve it ourselves. action is the key.
peace and grace, lim
more and more, people are understanding that there are just as many ordinary people in Iraq as in any other country, no matter what the TV says. What you write in your blog is very, very important for all of us, so don't stop!
hello mr arab, I must confess, I myself always think iraqis are wild ! sorry for that.
but your blogs makes be think "no they aren't wild" whatever .
my blog adress has changed :
my site : www.Medyadaily.com
my blog : www.blog.medyadaily.com
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