The European/"Socialist" solutions are never obvious to Americans.
It is like parliamentarianism, campaign financing regulations, gun control, multiple political parties, etc. Americans call these things "Socialism" and then freak out about them and refuse to see any good on them.
For me the keyword in your comment is "also". What this word means to me is that, whatever faults textbooks might have, there is no alternative solution. They replicate a problem that all books have.
However, within the domain of textbooks, you still might find good solutions for these bias. These bias are mostly within history and social sciences and good and reputable Universities are renowned for publishing books in these domains that are quite balanced, comprehensive, deep and rigorous. Oxford and Cambridge are the 2 best examples that come to my mind. The U.S. has good Universities too, but after their government declared a war on science and knowledge I'd be carefull before trusting these universities.
When I see lists like this I am surprised that they always live out school textbooks.
School textbooks are the kind of books that have the very precise purpose of giving you a foundation and roadmap to explore and understand a whole field of knowledge. And they're an industry that has been improving them on successive iterations to produce highly organized, comprehensive and accessible reading material through years.
And the irony of it is that the U.S. is actually quite history-poor, when compared to Europe, North Africa, Middle-East, Persia, China, Central Asia and India.
Playing a physical CD is a bit like going to a movie theatre instead of Netflix.
It is a ceremony, a ritual, a physical engagement of respect for the artists that created the work.
You don't do that to discardable music, the kind of crap they play on shopping malls, gyms, supermarkets and elevators. You do it to what you recognize as art and worth attention and care.
I've seen and used some variations of these in my Pebble watch.
They're cool for one day or two. But, in the end, I will always go back to some boring but more information-dense one (with battery charge, weather, heart rate, steps, etc).
After trying a lot, I only saw lines from books written originally in English.
Therefore, I assume I'll not see my favorite:
> Muchos años después, frente al pelotón de fusilamiento, el coronel Aureliano Buendía había de recordar aquella tarde remota en que su padre lo llevó a conocer el hielo.
My translation:
"Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
Lol, I liked the reply, congrats. It is stylish and well argued.
First, be respectful: I am Paranaense and we consider offensive to be called "Argentinean".
Second, my criticism on disrespect for manual labour is not directed towards Brazil in particular but towards most 3rd World countries, all over Latin America, Africa, Asia, Middle East and parts of Eastern Europe. I'd also stress that, in some but not all of these countries, this disrespect does have racial undertones.
Third, I agree that the article is not explicit in its thesis and is poor on facts. But I forgive it because it is journalism, not sociology or history. Journalism is entertainment, like movies or soap-operas; sociology and history are sciences. Entertainment aims at being easy, accessible and fun, science aims at being deep.
My problem with Naive Art is that it is quite repetitive and limited.
It is a bit like punk rock. After you've heard one or 2 songs from Ramones then you've heard them all. Surely, Ramones, once in a while, can be fun. But after the 3rd song I feel that all they're saying is "we wish we were the Beatles".
Similarly, naive art can be fun, almost as much as Brueghel. But after the 100th 3rd World village with rivers and palm trees I just want to go back to Rembrandt.
At first I found interesting how you nitpick in irrelevant details while ignoring the bigger picture.
The point of the whole article is to use a single case to illustrate a bigger picture that you seem to deliberately oversee: abuse and exploitation of manual and unqualified workers.
But, then, I saw your Brazilian name and understood. Brazilian jingoism freaks out when Brazil "looks bad" to the world. It is a very common reaction among 3rd world countries. Indians, Pakistanis, Nigerians, etc are just like that too.
"Fortran was invented by IBM. That is why you get a compiler error when you write Fortran without wearing a blue necktie".
Also, you might find interesting some movies by a French comedian called Jacques Tati. He made fun of these aseptic "modern" environments in movies like "Playtime" [1] and "My uncle".
Hmm, could it possible be a change in government's policies, more friendly towards corporations? Nah, I am probably inventing conspiracy theories... /s
In the end, do facts even matter in politically charged discussions?
This sounds a bit like providing evidence for global warming, gun control or evolution. The "skeptics" just want to remain ignorant. No amount of evidence will change them.
The silver lining about vaccine skeptics, though, is the Herman Cain award[1]. What this means is that conservatives die more than liberals from preventable diseases [2].
I don't have any idea of what is the purpose of this.
Do you want to share an USB device across the WiFi?
If so, why not use the USB-IP protocol? It is already part of the Linux kernel, has implementation for Windows and doesn't require additional hardware.
It is like parliamentarianism, campaign financing regulations, gun control, multiple political parties, etc. Americans call these things "Socialism" and then freak out about them and refuse to see any good on them.