[kictanet] Entryism according to some dictionaries

[Robert Alai]

Binaifer

There is just no way a foreigner can or must sit on a government regulatory
body which controls all spheres of communication in the country. There is
just no way and whether you call it racism, Brianism, Xenophobia,
Foreignophobia, or any phobia, there is just no way that should happen
whether he is Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Nicholas Negroponte, Tom Watson or
Steve Ballmer.

Foreigners must not run communication monitoring and regulatory systems in
this country

Alai

On 12/3/08, Binaifer Nowrojee <bnowrojee at osiea.org> wrote:
>
>  As a non-ICT person—just a KICTANET donor--I am compelled to add my two
> bits to the debate.
>
> To my mind, Brian Longwe's nationality is not so much an issue of entryism,
> but rather one of xenophobia, a phenomenon that we Kenyans appear have a
> high affinity to given our propensity to ethnic hatred and even violence.
>
> *Xenophobia*: an intense dislike and/or fear of people from other
> nationalities. It comes from the Greek<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language>words ξένος (
> *xenos*), meaning "foreigner," "stranger," and φόβος (*phobos*), meaning
> "fear." The term is typically used to describe a fear or dislike of
> foreigners <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_%28law%29> or of people
> significantly different from oneself.
>
> To my mind, Brian Longwe's intelligent and valuable contributions to the
> ICT sector in Kenya far supercede the issue of his nationality as the key
> determinant of his contributions.
>
> I am a bit puzzled as to how the possession of Kenyan nationality is being
> automatically equated with positive contributions to the nation—as somehow
> if we have a Kenyan in the post that things will be done better.  This is
> particularly the case when I look around me and see a Kenyan Commissioner of
> Police who is happy to kill unarmed pro-democracy advocates; a greedy
> parliament (all Kenyan) that is happy to award themselves exhorbitantly high
> salaries without paying tax; and a Kenyan government that is renown
> worldwide for some of the highest levels of corruption.  Is their
> contribution to our nation calibrated solely on their possession of a piece
> of paper that labels them Kenyan?
>
> I believe we should judge a person's contributions to bettering of the
> nation by their actions, regardless of their nationality.
>
> As the debate for constitutional reform moves forward, I also wonder where
> this leaves the xenophobes.  We may soon have a provision for dual
> nationality.
>
> Best
>
> Binaifer Nowrojee
>
>
>
>
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> *From:* kictanet-bounces+bnowrojee=osiea.org at lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:
> kictanet-bounces+bnowrojee <kictanet-bounces%2Bbnowrojee>=osiea.org@
> lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *aki
> *Sent:* 2008-12-03 13:27
> *To:* Binaifer Nowrojee
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> *Subject:* [kictanet] Entryism according to some dictionaries
>
>
>
> *The net has some interesting views on this, something that came to mind
> while reading world politics a while back.. *
>
>
>
> *Entryism* is a political tactic in which an organisation or group enters
> a larger organisation in an attempt to gain recruits, gain influence or to
> take control of the larger organisations' structure. This technique is
> commonly used by groups from the far left or right of the political spectrum
> to enter more centrist institutions. This is experienced more frequently in
> arenas where opportunities for political activity at the fringes is limited,
> such as two party/majoritarian systems rather than in
> multiparty/proportional systems where the cost of entry into the political
> system is lower. Organisations which are the subject of entryism often react
> by attempting either to marginalise or expel the pratagonists.
>
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