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Media Review: Foreign Policy magazine
I am becoming increasingly fond of a magazine called Foreign Policy. While there is a two-page spread I want to focus on here because it has proven especially interesting and useful to me, let me mention that in the January-February 2008 issue there are a number of other very interesting articles. One of them is called "A World Without Islam" by Graham Fuller. In this article, Fuller examins the implications for the world if, for instance, Christianity were the dominant religion in what is now geographically the Islamic world. Is it really Islam that has caused the last century's major problems ? His final sentence as it relates to how the world would be without Islam, sums up his conclusions: . . .in truth, the conflicts, rivalries, and crises of such a world might not look so vastly different than the ones we know today." In other words, it isn't Islam that is causing the major problems. The article I want most to focus on is a two page spread called "Beyond City Limits." One of the highlights of this spread is a delineation of a few statistics for four major world cities: New York City, Mumbai, Shanghai and Mexico City. Which one of these cities would have the highest murder rate, do you think ? (See answer 1 -- The answers to this and several other questions will be at the end of this review, but make your choice and note it now. Which of these cities do you think has the greatest air pollution ? (Answer 2) In which of these cities must one work the longest to earn enough to pay for a loaf of bread ? (Answer 3) As a substitute teacher who occasionally walks into a classroom where the teacher has become ill during the night and has not been able to leave a lesson plan, I have found that questions like these intrigue many high school students. Give them a quiz with a prize of a bag of popcorn for the student who gets the most correct answers and you immediately generate interest, which isn't very easy to do in the ghetto school I teach in. By the way, which of the four cities I mentioned above do you think has the largest population ? (answer 4) Consider the following: In 1900, what percentage of the population of the United States lived in rural as opposed to urban areas ? (answer 5) In 2007, what were the percentages ? (answer 6) And in 2050, what do you estimate the percentages will be ? (answer 7) Note the trend. These are just a few of the interesting statistics mentioned by "Beyond City Limits." Another very interesting article in the same issue of Foreign Policy, called, "What America Must do" contains answers about six paragraphs long each written by people Foreign Policy considers to be "12 of the world's leading thinkers." Some of these names were already familiar to me (Desmond Tutu, Nadine Gordimer, Newt Gingrich). Others -- I won't list these because I don't want to show off my ignorance -- were not. But the answers include ones titled "Open the Door to Damascus," "Step on the Gas," and "Say You're Sorry." The latter was provoked by the way George W. Bush has "thumbed his nose at the world." If you're an information junkie, or if you just want to see some interesting views about what is right and wrong with the world, the magazine Foreign Policy would be one great place to start. Answers: 1)Highest murder rate: Mexico City
2)Greatest pollution: Shanghai
3)Longest time to earn price of a loaf of bread: Mexico City.
4)Largest Population: Mexico City (19 million) Population of USA broken down to Urban and Rural percentages: 5) 10% urban, 90% rural
6) 50% rural, 50% urban
7) 25% rural, 75% urban
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