I’ve been on the Tunisphere for just 10 months and yet I’ve seen enough to have an opinion. I think at the time I started blogging, tn-blogs had around 100 blogs, and you can read the daily posts in less than 20 mn. Today there are 375 aggregated blogs and it’ll take around one hour to read the daily posts.
Since I’ve been on the Tunisphere, from time to time, you read a post from a blogger who is criticizing Tn blogs because he/she is not satisfied about the quality of the blogs and the state of mind of Tunisians bloggers. Some find that it is too tolerant, some find that it is not. Some find that bloggers ignored a subject that should have gotten more coverage because it is important, some find that we talk about very light subjects and some find that it is too intellectual and not reflecting Tunisians problems. Some think that some bloggers are here for popularity at any cost, even provocation. The most common thought is that the Tunisian way of thinking is bad, and it is always the other Tunisians of course, except the author.
My 2 cents on this, is that people are different, and they create blogs for very different reasons. I can see it for myself; I created my blog to vent my frustrations from years of overworking and ignoring all other aspects of life beside my family. But I found myself talking about other subjects that I always had in mind, like freedom, respect, and tolerance. Subjects that I don’t have an opportunity to talk about, because I don’t have time, because I don’t have a lot of intimate friends here in the US, because I am busy and the only time I think about this, is while reading a book, driving, showering or waiting for a plane in an airport. I needed to talk, to get it out, and to get heard.
Because we are different, and because we have different reasons to blog, we end up writing on different subjects, and because of the same difference, we end up not liking what others are writing. But that’s NORMAL, we don’t have to agree, we have to accept without agreeing that people can have different opinions. If you don’t agree, you can argue and try to convince, and I’d like to mention as a perfect example, our friend Temeraire who does his best to discuss sensitive subjects based on arguments and facts. Whether he is right or not, this is not the problem. When it comes to religion and politics, nobody is right, but it is about who is able to explain and argue with respect and who is willing to listen. Criticizing a religion or a belief should be an opportunity for a true believer to take the challenge and convince us otherwise. In Arabic we say “Doubt is the way to certainty”. Treating people of miscreants does not get you anywhere because you’re judging them using your own rules. Convincing them that they are wrong is harder but it is the right thing to do.
I also wanted to add that if you think that our blogospehere is intolerant and our bloggers are bullies, you are wrong. I’ve been on US and European blogs and I can tell you sometimes it gets scary. Bullying and threatening is very common, and thanks god, we rearely have such incidents on our Tunisphere.
So to summarize, I am proud to be Tunisian and I’m proud of the Tunisphere.
Since I’ve been on the Tunisphere, from time to time, you read a post from a blogger who is criticizing Tn blogs because he/she is not satisfied about the quality of the blogs and the state of mind of Tunisians bloggers. Some find that it is too tolerant, some find that it is not. Some find that bloggers ignored a subject that should have gotten more coverage because it is important, some find that we talk about very light subjects and some find that it is too intellectual and not reflecting Tunisians problems. Some think that some bloggers are here for popularity at any cost, even provocation. The most common thought is that the Tunisian way of thinking is bad, and it is always the other Tunisians of course, except the author.
My 2 cents on this, is that people are different, and they create blogs for very different reasons. I can see it for myself; I created my blog to vent my frustrations from years of overworking and ignoring all other aspects of life beside my family. But I found myself talking about other subjects that I always had in mind, like freedom, respect, and tolerance. Subjects that I don’t have an opportunity to talk about, because I don’t have time, because I don’t have a lot of intimate friends here in the US, because I am busy and the only time I think about this, is while reading a book, driving, showering or waiting for a plane in an airport. I needed to talk, to get it out, and to get heard.
Because we are different, and because we have different reasons to blog, we end up writing on different subjects, and because of the same difference, we end up not liking what others are writing. But that’s NORMAL, we don’t have to agree, we have to accept without agreeing that people can have different opinions. If you don’t agree, you can argue and try to convince, and I’d like to mention as a perfect example, our friend Temeraire who does his best to discuss sensitive subjects based on arguments and facts. Whether he is right or not, this is not the problem. When it comes to religion and politics, nobody is right, but it is about who is able to explain and argue with respect and who is willing to listen. Criticizing a religion or a belief should be an opportunity for a true believer to take the challenge and convince us otherwise. In Arabic we say “Doubt is the way to certainty”. Treating people of miscreants does not get you anywhere because you’re judging them using your own rules. Convincing them that they are wrong is harder but it is the right thing to do.
I also wanted to add that if you think that our blogospehere is intolerant and our bloggers are bullies, you are wrong. I’ve been on US and European blogs and I can tell you sometimes it gets scary. Bullying and threatening is very common, and thanks god, we rearely have such incidents on our Tunisphere.
So to summarize, I am proud to be Tunisian and I’m proud of the Tunisphere.
12 comments:
très intéressant post.
personnellement je dissocie entre ce que je mets sur mon propre blog et ce que j'attend des blogs des autres.
c'est peut etre bizarre ou contradictoire mais c comme ça :)
par exemple je suis curieuse et j'attend de découvrir de nouvelles choses alors je le fais par moi meme en cherchant a droite a gauche mais je suis interessée par le regard des autres ce qu'ils pensent etc etc ... je suis parfois (parfois souvent ...) déçue par la façon dont certains sujets sont traités; voir meme la réaction des uns et des autres.
quand je ne maitrise pas un sujet ou quand je me pose une question je la pose mais je n'essaye jamais de faire comme si j'avais un cours a donner; ou pour faire de la moral.
en tout cas j'essaye d'etre ouverte et prendre compte d'eventuelles critiques.
j'ai du mal a me reconnaitre dans certains sujets traités ici ou la. c'est un point de vu personnel et c mon probleme si ça ne me plait pas.
J'aime beaucoup ce post.
Je suis tout à fait d'accord avec toi que le respect et la tolérance devraient primer.
Et comme toi, je rends hommage aux personnes qui savent rester correctes même lorsqu'elles désapprouvent ce que l'on dit.
Argumenter, refuter, refuser, approuver... tout est permit, mais dans la limite de la correction.
Je pense surtout qu'il ne devrait pas être permit de s'attaquer aux personnes.
post intéressant ..
comme koi je comprends l'anglais :D
premièrement BRAVO,bravo car tu m'as incité à enlever la paresse et à lire le post, c'est pas que j'aime pas te lire mais j'aime pas lire en anglais je ressens de la frustration un étouffement car j'ai du mal à le faire(et j'aime pas avoir du mal)...
Mais aujourd'hui je l'ai fait et j'ai réussi à le lire et a comprendre même oui je me suis apperçu que je comprends l'anglais, c'est vraie que j'ai ressentie la même frustration mais pas grave je l'ai lu.VOILA
Enfin Samsoum je peux ecrire un commentaire , je me suis heurtée maintes fois au compte google blogger mes comments ne passaient pas ...
J'aime beaucoup vous lire et apprecie tout ce que vous faîtes et ce dernier post resume bien votre sensibilité et votre attachement à autrui...Pour mon blog , je ne peux qu'être moi même , je ne peux pas me créer des histoires imaginaires ou fictives seulement des fois j'ai du mal à parler de quelques sujets que d'autres ne peuvent pas partager car ils ignorent la source donc je m'abstiens ...peut-etre c'est un tort mais bon quand le sujet est traité ailleurs et il y a du monde je me permets de commenter...(j'ai tjs ce souci que le sujet n'interesse personne...) alors je parle de moi et des affinitées se tisse autour ,ça aide à echanger et communiquer...
Two thumbs up samsoum!
Excellent post. Ton diagnostic est parfait et j'epere que tes lecteurs americains pourront etre mieux eclairés sur nous autres tunisiens. cependant je voudrais ajouter ceci :
1) Ce qui est certain c'est qu'on ne peut pas être tous d'accord sur tout au meme moment. L'humeur de l'instant peut inciter une personne à changer son avis sur un meme sujet.
2)Il ne faut pas generaliser à partir d'un echantillon, 2 ou 3 pour faire des jugements definitifs. Les blogs et ce qui est dit dedans refletent surtout l'avis ou la personalité de l'auteur et non pas la mantalité de la societé à laquelle il appartient. Ça confirme en tout les cas le deficit de connaissances qui existe entre les differents peuples. C'est tres facil et surtout commode de faire des jugements hatifs.
There is great wisdom in this post :-)
@Samsoum: Well said!:)
Heureusement qu'il y'a encore des gens comme toi sur la tunisphere
@cameleon:Ce n'est pas contradictoire, c'est logique, si tout le monde ecrivait sur les meme sujets cela deviendrait ennuyant a mourrir!
@Massir:Tant qu'on est entrain de debattre une idee, il n'ya pas de limite a part enfreindre a une des valeurs universelles tel que le racisme ou tout autre forme de descrimination. Des que ca devient personnel, ce n'est plus acceptable.
@kmaira:Merci pour ton effort.
@soulef: C'est tres difficile d'assumer ces idees quand on s'addresse a un public iconnu, mais en etant anonyme ca aide parfois :-)
@Takkou: Tout a fait d'accord avec toi.
@Abdou, Sassou, Farfar,houssein,hannibal: Merci pour vos compliments, j'espere que je les merite :-)
@BTB: Merci cher ami, ma fierte de cette blogospehere provient de blogs comme le tien.
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