presenter: And she's the one, Amal, who through herself in front of him as Americans-- Bergen: Yeah. Amal, she married him when he was 17, and again, she was from a rural backwater in Yemen, a place called Ibb. She told a cousin, "I'm going to go down in history" and he was like, "Well, how are you going to do that?" The way to do that was to getmarried to Osama bin Laden. It's interesting to see how these wives-- they're now, as you probably know, they're all back in Saudi Arabia, she'll go back to Yemen. The Saudis will keep
So, Europe, by contrast, looks like a sort of blood-soaked battlefield. A backwater . Where you're constantly fighting over religion, you're constantly being bullied by nobles, who all have their own private armies, and are wandering around in a rather lawless way.
Three years ago, when ISIS took over Raqqa, everybody thought, including Assad himself, "Well, what does that matter? It's a provincial backwater . Nobody cares at all." But they were very clever in doing that.
And then the peninsula-- the Iberian Peninsula, with what was to become the modern states of Portugal and Spain there. And for centuries, Europe had been a backwater . We were primitive. We were left out.
of agriculture because it turns out people work their own land better than they work the master's land. That's just the way it is. That was the basis of that island's remarkable movement from a feudal backwater to an industrial powerhouse in just one generation. Same thing with, by the way generally true among the so-called Asian Tigers.
months uh 52 rules derived from the people that I've learned the most from the mayor of Portland Oregon when I worked there Portland was pretty much of a Backwater if you go there now or if any of you are from Portland it is perhaps America's most livable City because of the decisions and the choices
The interesting thing-- so I'm generally skeptical of win-win arguments. And I think that department, which really started in many ways as a backwater -- the graphics apartment was not one of the most important departments in the "New York
The term K Street, which didn't exist before 1971, became a term like Wall Street or Madison Avenue to signify an enormous industry. Washington, DC, which had been a sleepy backwater town without much wealth, compared to the Clevelands, or the Bay Areas, or the New Yorks, or the Philadelphias of the world, suddenly, after the influx of corporate money and the lobbying, became a very different community.
Voila, you've turned a relationship of violent inequality into a relation where the victims are running around feeling inadequate all the time, making terrible apologies for themselves I mean it's kind of rough in Western Europe but Western Europe is kind of a barbarian backwater anyway.
He's a Sikh, and thus a vegetarian, which in the US is probably not a bad way of staying that bit healthier, especially at truckstops. And it was an incredible experience for me to be in the backwaters of Missouri or Oklahoma eating parathas, because Pala would have been well in touch with the Punjabi trucking community that is dotted across the roadsides of the US, would have spoken
So you can be a remote student. Georgia. And when I first went to Tbilisi, it was a pretty rundown, post-Soviet kind of backwater .
And it was like watching the big bang, basically. Just . Because before this time, Silicon Valley was like this regional backwater , wasn't even called Silicon Valley. It sort of existed around one industry, which was microchips, semiconductors.
I say in the book-- a female analyst--. One of the interesting side stories here is how the CIA-- The biggest cultural shift, I quote somebody in the book, in the CIA in the last 20 years is the rise of women in the agency. The bin Laden unit was full of women because initially, at that time before 9/11, it was seen as a backwater and no one really cared about bin Laden. But some of the people who did the work that found him, in particular, were women. It was a particular female analyst who essentially said, in 2005 when it was
You can't really see it very well up here but if you add joy plus anticipation it equals optimism. And he created this emotion wheel and the reason that it never got a lot of play within the psychology academic community, is because back in the 1980s, if you were doing backwater academic studies in psychology you were focusing on emotions because emotions was not a very well respected piece of the psychology world; today it is, but back then it wasn't.