UNE’s Anouar Majid offers global perspective on rapid social change
University of New England Vice President for Communications and Global Affairs Anouar Majid, Ph.D., offered his thoughts on what spurs rapid social change in an interview with the show “207” on WCSH.
The story focused on why Americans have rapidly changed their collective opinion on so-called moral issues such as same sex marriage and recreational marijuana and have expressed those opinions in the voting booth in recent years. “There’s a new generation of Americans right now, they are not necessarily buying into their parents’ or their grandparents’ world view,” Majid said. “They feel freer to decide for themselves and not be bound by the puritanical, punitive culture that had prevailed in the United States for so long.”
Majid spoke to the question from a global perspective, explaining the populist movement happening in many nations. “The populism I’m talking about is a reaction to something. It’s a reaction to a system that people think is not working for them. And they have put trust in that system, they believe in the eternity of that system, but that system, lo and behold, crashed. Jobs fled, industries folded and moved on, and so these people are left there watching, asking themselves the question, what happened?”
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