By Atlas Al
If you haven’t already heard about the tragedy of 20-year-old, Noor Faleh Almaleki of Arizona, Flagging Headquarters brings the story to you. According to the November 6, 2009 article on nytimes.com, AZ ‘Honor Killing’ Victim Just Wanted To Be Normal, she chose not to follow the customs and traditions of her family’s native Iraq. On October 20, 2009, Noor and the mother of her boyfriend, were run over by Noor’s father driving the family car. His motive: an ‘honor killing’ to avenge his family from Noor’s decisions to act more American.
Age-To-Flag Determination Theory
Noor and her family moved from Iraq to the United States when she was very young. If you’re surrounded by American customs and culture, even when the confines of your home may seem like a different country, most likely you’ll want to blend in and/or embrace the culture of the country you’re in. If Noor’s father didn’t want her to be a modern, free-spirited woman, then he never should have moved his family to the United States. Sure, I’d rather live in the U.S. than a warzone. However, if you move from an oppressed/restricted Middle Eastern country to an extremely open, Western country like the United States, you have to take into consideration that your family, especially your kids, will be affected.
Noor just wanted to melt into the multicultural pot that is America. She may have looked like an Iraqi woman, but she didn’t think like one. According to the Constitution of Flagging‘s Age-To-Flag Determination Theory, we must draw the line somewhere to determine one’s flag status. Noor moved to the U.S. when she was very young, so she was more American than Iraqi. Her father wanting to kill her reinforces the belief that if you moved to a country at a young age, you are not the flag from the country you came from, rather the flag of the country you moved to.
this is why its good not to mess with middle easterns and south asians..the bf coulda been the victim too.
i think the term modern is more like being more western…2 different things…moderinazation is about adapting to new technoloigies …while the westernizing is change of culture and thinking…..the world has westernized(americanized) to a degree ..like clothing an pop culture..yoou can goto an african village an they where tshirt an shorts instead of tradtionial as example.
plus we did mess with iraq and the rest of the middle east for decades…..get the story from ron paul, noam choskiy or wiki