Come on.... really ??
After reading The Nobel Peace Prize 2012 went for the European Union, I was amazed.
For the reason: "for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe".
Well thats honorable, but thinking about all the fightings going on in the world these years, this seems too political in these years of economical crises.
This reason looks more as of a Lifetime award, in my opinion.
People are still getting tortured for speaking their minds in China and sometimes disappear, people in an African country are struggling to avoid civil war between religions, people fighting for Syria's government to stop bombing their own people (with support from Russia and China), and unfortunately the list goes on.
And they gave it to some suits in EU... Come on !!
In 2009 the gave the prize President Barack Obama after ha had been 8 months in office. He himself was very surprised. It was given for helping world peace especially concerning nuclear power, and for hopefully future peaceful actions... hopefully...??!!
In his speech when receiving he called for the necessarity of war before peace.! A very peaceful man...
On the other hand, this just tells me that one should not give The Nobel association too much credit.
The Nobel Organization is actually quite big Swedish/Norwegian and consist of multiple organizations with different tasks towards the awards. Of course these people have their agenda and can be moved towards a decision (though they probably don't acknowledge that. But they have so much attention from the hole world that they should be independent.
I would give them a lot more creditability if they more completely independent, with independent judges that didn't have any political agenda, except for supporting people struggling for peace and freedom.
What has this to do with my life in Brazil ?
As I moved from Europe, Denmark, I am still very interested in whats going on there, and very interested in the differences towards Brazil.
But this topic all came to my mind because one reporter her in Brazil joked: "Strange decision, but I guess it was better than giving EU the Economical Prize"...
Haha.... that would have been funny :-)
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