Interests
- Social Issues
- Racism: Any attitude, action, or institutional structure which treats an individual or group of individuals differently because of their race. See http://www.socialjustice.org
- Religion: I subscribe to a free-thinking, non-theism that defines an atheist as someone who “does not believe in god or gods or other supernatural entities.” – American Atheist’s web page (http://www.atheists.org). See also http://www.infidels.org.
- Patriarchy: Patriarchy comes in many forms, but these all share one main feature, every Patriarchal attitude, behaviour, and doctrine is mysoginist at its core. Here are a few very oppressive examples of Patriarchy:
- veiling women (see http://www.iranfocus.com
or http://www.middleastwomen.org) - honour killing of women (http://womensissues.about)
- imposing economic and socio-political inequalities on women (http://www.globalpolicy.org)
- veiling women (see http://www.iranfocus.com
- Social Activism: http://www.chomsky.info
- Sustainability and Peace
- We believe that especially in our planet’s future, sustainability and peace will be interlinked in a very direct way and therefore sustainability is an issue we all should put way more effort into. Evidence is mounting that the intersection of increasing demands for resources coupled with declining ecological resources will lead to more conflicts and wars. See for example: The Next World War, by Roy Woodbridge.
Web sites of interest:
http://www.davidsuzuki.org
http://www.unglobalcompact.org
http://www.icsc.ca
http://www.naturalstep.ca
- We believe that especially in our planet’s future, sustainability and peace will be interlinked in a very direct way and therefore sustainability is an issue we all should put way more effort into. Evidence is mounting that the intersection of increasing demands for resources coupled with declining ecological resources will lead to more conflicts and wars. See for example: The Next World War, by Roy Woodbridge.
- Traveling/Adventure
- Exploring the whole thing “Earth” on land, in the air, and in the water to understand it better—its beauty and problems, its humans and other creatures, its cultures and art, its economy and ecology.
- Academic Issues
- Linguistics: Sima is interested in the theoretical as well as the computational aspects of linguistics.
- Machine Translation: First step: let’s define it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/machine_translation.