The risky politics of progress

1. Changes in the past created the passionately open-minded Canada.

2. Media's costant doom-mongering with its fixation on problems not on answers

3. 3 countries that J.Tepperman (lecturer) visited have signs of progress in dealing with immigration, islamic fundametnalism, political paralysis

4. Commom threats and factors that faced these countries

5. There is a power in promiscuous

6. Embrace the extreme

7. Canada

8. When other countries are building new barriers to keep foreigners out, Canadian want even more of then in.

9. Past

10. Results in present

11. Indonesia

12. Islamic extremism

13. Joko Widoko (president): "to deal with extemistis, we need to deal with inequality first"; "repression creats more extremism".

14. In 2000th the collapse of the authoritarianism was accompanied with acts of Islamic extremists, but then Indonesia moved in the opposite direction. It is a pretty decent democracy now.

15. P. Trudeau (prime miniser) in 1968 threw out old race-based rules and created the policy of official multiculturalism.

16. This is a time of terrible decline

17. Mexico

18. Enrique Nieto (president) hammered out a truce between warring parties and passed a set of reforms. He achieved trust relationship by using compromises.

19. When Mexico became democracy, politicians started to fight one another. As a result, the Pentagon warned the Mexico risked collapse.

20. Please all the people some of the time