Tag: Solidarity

Offering support and encouragement is a significant part of interpersonal relationships. In German, expressing support can strengthen bonds, offer comfort, and motivate others. Whether you’re comforting a friend, encouraging a colleague, or showing solidarity, using the right words is key. Let...

One criticism of Durkheim’s theory of solidarity is that it is too focused on the positive effects of interdependence. Durkheim was interested in the benefits that could be wrought from a transition out of mechanical and into organic solidarity, arguing that a shift towards interdependence wou...

In 1989 Tim Berners-Lee and his team at CERN came up with a language to create the internet, HTTP, or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. The innovation allowed one computer on the internet to talk to, or link with, another one, such that over time, as websites proliferated, they could be connected into w...

We at the Nellie Mae Education Foundation stand in solidarity with the Asian American Pacific Islander community across the nation, condemning the hate crimes that are being perpetuated by white supremacist and misogynist ways of thinking and acting. To claim that these acts were not racially motiva...

In 1915, running from genocide, my great-grandparents Noina and Abraham abruptly left Urmia, Iran. Some know this as the Armenian genocide but Assyrians too were killed in mass, and they call it the Seyfo. My great-grandmother, 22, my age, was separated from her parents and never saw them again. Rum...

Did Black Americans take a pledge of blind loyalty that I'm not aware of? Based on comments made by some in the Jewish community, Black people owe them solidarity for their role in the civil rights movement. And after many Black scholars expressed solidarity for Palestinians in Gaza, some have r...

Our communities have always engaged and learned from one another, including many in the Asian American community who followed in the footsteps of pioneering Black leaders in the civil rights movement. In fact, the term “Asian American” was first coined in the 1960s due to inspi...