Response #7

The United States was built on social movements, and it's interesting to think that we don't often see that connection between us and the MENA region. From the very beginning of when we created our government, we had movements and opposition groups against certain agendas and policies (i.e. Boston Tea Party in response to taxation without representation). The same can be said for the MENA region. They have held movements for and peaceful/and sometimes not so peaceful oppositions against rigged voting, suffrage rights, proper representation, etc. Social movements have shaped so much of the democracy the United States is today, and it is only a matter of time the MENA region fallows suit in their own way. They care just as much to have a proper working state as we do, and since the Arab Spring, it is obvious that they are working hard towards that, whether it's our cookie- cutter image of democratization or not.