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Struggling to eat HealthilyFuyu Hsieh

Struggling against the SystemJulia Chraïti-Martin

Struggling to be BeautifulInYoung Ham

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Introduction by the Editor

Mark Dallas

If you’re an ILSC student,

you’re most likely struggling

with a number of things: how

to get along with new people

from other countries, how to keep

talking English around the school/

avoid getting (more) yellow cards,

how to remember and apply the

things your teacher taught you

today.

If you’re a teacher, you’re

probably struggling with how to

help your students remember and

apply the things you taught them

today.

If you use the TTC every day,

you’ll know what a struggle it can

be just getting to where you want to

be while struugling against the urge

to hurt those fellow commuters

who jostle you with their bags

and insist on squeezing onto your

already-crowded train eventhough

there’ll be another one along in 2

minutes.

If you ride a bike or a skateboard,

you probably know what a struggle

it is to avoid getting injured (or

even murdered) by car drivers.

Car drivers often struggle

against the urge to answer that call

or send that urgent text message

while caught in rush-hour traffi c

or while gliding through fl ashing

cross-walks, oblivious to the

pedestrians about to cross.

Every article in this issue is

about a kind of struggle. I hope

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Struggling to eat Healthily

Fuyu Hsieh

Nowadays people like

do things fast due

to having a busy

lifestyle: they walk

fast, eat fast, and talk fast, then

they also want things to be fast.

Fast food became one of the

favourites on the “fast” list. When you walk to frozen

food section in a grocery store, you

will see different kinds of people

stand in front of the freezer. Some

of them are students, some are

housewives, and some are “nine-

to-fi vers (people who work from

9 till 5)”. Most of them have no

time to cook or don’t know how,

but they also want to have meat,

vegetables and rice or noodles in

every meal and want to be healthy

and eat normal food. Therefore,

ready meals become their priority.

They seem to be very healthy and

easy to prepare as they only take

7-10 minutes to heat up, but this

kind of frozen food contains a lot of

sodium. People sometimes read the

nutritional facts on the packages,

but, even though they know they

are taking an overdoes of sodium

from each meal — increasing the

potential for having high blood

pressure—they still choose them

because of convenience.

Six years ago, Jamie Oliver,

a famous British chef, advocated

improving school lunches in the

UK. He went to several schools and

asked students if they recognized

the vegetables and meat before they

were cooked. Also, he went to the

kitchens in cafeterias, while dinner

ladies were heating up chicken

nuggets one bag after another,

and taking instant desserts out of

the freezer. He was disappointed

by what he saw, because children

should eat healthier and fresher

food, especially while they are

growing up. Jamie was the fi rst

person who innovated school

171. Jihad an-nafs (jihad against

one’s self) is of four kinds: a.

Striving to learn the teachings of

Islam, b. Striving to make oneself

act in accordance with what one has

learned, c. Striving to call others

to Islam, teaching those who do

not know about it, and d. Striving

to bear patiently the diffi culties

involved in calling people to Allah

and the insults of people, bearing

all that for the sake of Allah.

2. Jihad ash-Shaytan (jihad

against Satan) is of two types: a.

Warding off the doubts that Satan

stirs up to undermine faith, and b.

Striving against Satan to ward off

the corrupt desires that he provokes.

The fi rst jihad is followed by

certainty of faith, and the second

is followed by patience. Patience

wards off desires, and certainty

wards off doubts.

3. Jihad against the munafi qin

(hypocrites) and the kuffar

(disbelievers) is of four kinds:

with the heart, the tongue, one’s

wealth and oneself. Jihad against

the disbelievers is more along the

lines of physical fi ghting when

ordered by a ruler or in defense, for

example, when an enemy has come

and attacked a Muslim land. On the

other hand, jihad against hypocrites

is more along the lines of using

words and ideas.

Each one of us is struggling in

this world. Now, by writing about

this issue, I can consider myself a

mujahid without a Kalashnikov or a

beard and without ever having shed

blood .

An atypical image of a mujahid

A parody book cover taken from

Uncyclopedia’s ‘jihad!’ page. It relies upon

common stereotypical ideas associated with

Muslim fundamentalism.

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What is the image you see in

your mind when you hear the word

‘jihad’? A man with a big beard,

carrying a Kalashnikov? A woman

wearing a scarf over her face? If

so, it’s time to learn what a real

mujahid is.

Jihad, an Islamic term, is a

religious duty of Muslims. In

Arabic, the word translates as a

noun meaning “struggle”. A person

engaged in jihad is called a mujahid,

the plural being mujahideen.

Jihad is one of the 10 practices of

the religion. Moreover, the concept

can be traced back to the words and

actions of Muhammad the prophet

and the Quran (the holy book

for Muslims). It, however, never

uses the term jihad for fi ghting or

combat in the name of Allah (the

Arabic name for God); ‘qital’ is

used to mean “fi ghting.”

Jihad in the Quran was originally

intended for the nearby neighbours

of the Muslims, but as time passed

and more enemies arose, the Quranic

statements supporting jihad were

updated for the new adversaries.

The best of jihad.

During the Arab spring of

2010-11, many peaceful

demonstrations in Arab countries

faced violence and gunfi re by their

government's regimes. The gunfi re

encouraged the protests and then

turned them into revolutions, based

on their strong faith of what is

called "the best of jihad", which had

been encouraged by the words of

their prophet, Muhammad : “The

best Jihad is the word of Justice in

front of the oppressive Sultan” .

Kinds of al-jihad:

Jihad has three kinds: jihad an-

nafs (against one’s self), jihad ash-

Shaytan (against Satan) and jihad

against hypocrites.

What is Jihad?

Salem Rady

The typical image of mujahideen

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lunches fi rst in the U.K, then in

the United States. Before he did

this, the rate of kids who are under

12 sick due to unbalanced diet

was dramatically increasing from

1999 to 2006 according to a report

from AAP (American Academy

Pediatric).

Research in the U.S. said

Chinese people had changed their

eating habits. For example, Chinese

people used to cook by boiling and

steaming, and ate low-fat food.

However, it changed into stir-

frying, deep-fat frying and other

food containing a lot of fat. By

using these cooking styles, there are

about 230 million people in China

dying every year from having high

blood pressure, usually caused, of

course, by taking too much sodium.

There are more and more

people who focus on healthy

eating; they think spending more

money on buying food and more

time on eating a meal are good for

themselves. Some food is cooked

in a delicate way, and is sold for a

high price. Despite this, during the

process of cooking, the nutrition

has either gone or been reduced.

After World War, there was a

food shortage. In countries, like

Switzerland, Norway, Denmark,

and the UK, the governments gave

people grains that were used to feed

poultry and farm animals and they

found out eating this unprocessed

food decreased the death rate and

people were healthier than before.

In Taiwan, McDonald’s

has noticed that many people tried

to change their life style and watch

what they eat. In order to attract

more customers to purchase the

products, McDonald’s has started

to print nutritional facts on the

packages of french fries, chicken

nuggets, and the wraps of burgers,

which shows they do care about

customers’ health.

But think twice, do they really

care? If they do, why do they keep

serving you processed meat? It is

like telling you a glass of wine is

good for you. But remember, wine

is just another sugar liquid.

The responsibility of

taking good care of ourselves is

still on the individual. For those

people who try to eat something

fresh but have time limited, you

are lucky! Jamie Oliver has a

program called 30-minutes Meals

that teaches people how to cook a

3-dish (even more) meal in half an

hour. Sometimes the time is even

shorter. It’s different now than in

the past when you had to stay in the

kitchen for many hours and prepare

the food for the family or your

friends. You will have more time

to spend with your loved ones and

still enjoy the food. The TV show

is really helpful and creative. So

which one do you want to choose?

To keep having your regular daily

routine, or change your life style

after reading this?

For more information and

recipes from 30-minute Meals go

to: http://www.jamieoliver.com/tv-

books/jamies-30-minute-meals

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I’ll always remember my

return from Cuba. After 15

days of vacation, There

I was, back to my lovely

daily routine. Bag on my

shoulder, smile on my face, I

took the good old subway again.

Wriggling and elbowing my

way, I fi nally got into the sweaty

mob. A high-pitch sound softly

caressed my eardrum, while a

woman looking as welcoming

as a starving pitbull stared at

me. I always had a fondness for

a warm atmosphere, but I was

starting to ask myself why and

how I was putting up with this.

I sat and, remembering good

manners, avoided eye contact. I

started looking at the wall. Now I

was held captive by advertisement

after advertisement. The more my

eyes wandered, the more I started

feeling claustrophobic : I just realized

that I couldn’t escape any of these,

not now, not ever. Store fl oors, gas

pumps, washroom stalls, elevator

walls, park benches, telephones,

even fruit was covered in ads!

I was feeling stuck, powerless.

My heart was beating and my mind

screaming to death, “We’ve been

fooled! Freedom is nowhere.”

I went out of the subway station

to Dundas Square. It got worse .

Wherever I go, I will always have

to choose between the last X-box

or the newest Wii Karaoke, the

big dilemma between imitating

the great intellectual refi nement of

Britney Spears or the unparalleled

artistic talent of Justin Bieber, anti-

aging cream or slimming pills,

Coke or Sprite, Domino’s or Pizza

Hut. Stuck, stuck, stuck!

I started asking myself if this

wasn’t a form of violence. Don’t

we experience violence in our

daily lives? This reality of a totally

hypertrophic social phenomenon,

Struggling against the SystemJulia Chraïti-Martin

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happy, or we can be happier with

the essentials? We must nurture

self-control.

What kind of job will help

you to create a happier life?

Maybe working with plants,

creating furniture, painting

walls, organizing warehouses,

giving people information, being

a fi refi ghter, a hairdresser, a

philosopher. No matter what your

abilities are, you need to be a

projector of your own image, not

just a refl ection of the images that

others create. It is about creating

the life you want to live.

Some people already knew

early what they wanted to do with

their lives, but for most people,

knowing what you want is not

easy. Some university students

say: "It’s a question of timing. I

had to choose my degree too early.

I was 18 years old. I didn’t know

anything about life, myself or the ng about life, myself or the

work market. Now I am attached to

a degree that I am not that sure that

I like that much." This is one of the

problems that students need to face

and, depending on the career choice,

can be more or less complicated to

change your area of study.

These days we’ll hear, "I studied

a lot, and I was the top of my class,

but I am still afraid of not fi nding

a good job. Everybody is doing the

same thing: we struggle to get into

university, we struggle to graduate

and all this for what? To compete, to

get a job in a chain to be underpaid?

Something is really wrong."

So how is this going to change?

We need to take responsibility and

stop accepting the majority option.

Self-discipline and thinking for

ourselves. It’s two ways to start

to change, to move in another

direction.

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A teacher is thought better than a

taxi driver. Capitalist society puts

teachers in a better position than

taxi drivers, a profession often

considered to be for ‘losers’, for

people that are uneducated and not

ambitious in life. In this way some

professions are stigmatized.

So our work will defi ne who we

are. If we look up the word work

in the dictionary, there are a lot

of meanings. But what this word

represents in our daily lives will

defi ne our lifestyles—whom we are

going to meet. Work is everything.

For the way that society has

been created, to fi nd a good job,

we need to go to university and

choose a good degree. And even

the government prefer that people

study business rather than liberal

arts, sociology, philosophy or

history. It pushes us in the ‘right’

direction, in a corporate way to

make money.

And all this is about status and

greed. We use this money to buy

stuff that we don't need and live the

lives that capitalism told us to live.

We go with the fl ow; we are ships.

We go to work, we start a family,

and we buy property.

All this pressure and expectation

makes us ward-working slaves,

giving ourselves the best, waking

up earlier and going to bed only

after getting all our work done

and beating the competition. We

struggle to construct our careers

and to have a certain lifestyle.

Many people have to have more

than one job and be self-employed

to achieve their goals: the right car,

house, clothes and vacations. And

if there is a fi nancial crisis, many

people don’t survive because they

think it better to be dead than poor

at a lower level of the capitalist

pyramid.

So what we can do? How we

should live our lives? This answer

only you can give. Our biggest

challenge in our lifetimes is to

choose and to know what we want.

We need to re-evaluate our needs

and stop following the herd, and we

must create our own opportunities

by thinking for ourselves. Do we

really need that much stuff to be

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the large privatisation of our urban

space is real aggression that we

have to face every single day. In

addition to the abusive methods of

its domination, we can denounce

the pernicious message that

advertisements give us, modifying

every value in consumer durables.

Consumption is transformed in

a way to resolve every single

problem, making us believe that we

will fi nd a personality and identity

in each brand. The system treats

us not as human beings anymore

but only as producing ability. Isn’t

that violent as well? Or even the

structure obligating us to make only

profi t and accumulation?

It may be a good idea to start

deciding on our own what is brutal

or not. Black blocs may be the fi rst

element we need to rethink. A black

bloc is one strategy that is often

used during a protest, in which

symbols of capitalism such as

banks, multinational corporations

(Starbucks, Gap, etc.) and

institutional buildings are targeted.

Even if black blocs become violent,

they may be less violent than

capitalism itself fi nally.

Many of us understood after

opening our eyes and looking at

the world outside that capitalism

isn’t the solution. Inequality,

environmental problems, and

economic crises are increasing

every day. We have seen politics

trying to conciliate humanisation

and limitation to a wild capitalism

always asking for more deregulation,

more free trade, more stock market,

and more privatisation, but we are

all still waiting for the big change.

The more reasonable ones among

us talk about ‘degrowth’ and ethics,

others about revolution, trying to

explain that we can’t reform a system

thathas already driven us to the wall.

The opponents yell at the Bolshevik

propagandists, assuring us that there

is nothing else other than capitalism.

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This is exactly where capitalist

domination is: entertaining the

illusion that this system is the only

one possible, that adapting ourselves

to this ideology means being adapted

to the world as it is, and as it should

be and will always be.

Is it really utopian to think that

the economy and the market should

serve the advantage of collectivity?

That the fi nality of economy

shouldn’t be the unlimited

extension of merchandise, but the

satisfaction of everyone’s vital

needs? Dreaming about another

world became a crime unanimously

doomed. We should see that the real

crime is to contribute, consciously

or not, to the madness of the

actual economic organization. The

insanity is the system we are living

in today.

We buy merchandise that forges

another link in our chain every

time. Our work is becoming ever

more alienating. Because people are

afraid of change, accepting without

question, this life built for us seems

to be the only option. Are we so

enslaved that we can’t even contest

against our own exploitation? The

idea that our system is the best one

is anchored to the modern media

and public opinion, and therefore

we are resigned to acceptance.

What other solution do we have

anyway? Revolution? Revolution is

for violent and uneducated people,

weird and unemployed maybe.

Revolution is anarchy, anarchy

is chaos, and chaos is violence.

But did you ever take the time

to think about what those words

mean? Are you turned off by the

words anarchy, communism, black

bloc, and revolution voluntarily or

because society wants you to be?

After all it’s easy to call

everything into question, but what

is the solution? The capitalism

we experience today is clearly

not it, we got it. So what about

communism? The fall of the Berlin

Wall remains for many a symbol

of the failure of communism. In

fact, the end of the Wall doesn’t

show the failure of communism,

but the failure of a bureaucratic

and totalitarian system, and we

should welcome it. I truly believe

that there was nothing to save in

Stalinism. It was condemnable in

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Since we were born

our lives have been

determined by the

values of the societies

to which we belong. Our parents

and families are going to expect

something depending on how

they lived their lives. So if that

family is rich, we are going to

have a good education and it

will be expected of us to keep

the family rich. If the family is

neither rich nor poor, we will be

expected to become richer and

achieve more than our parents

have. And if the family is poor

we’ll be expected to survive in

the best way that we can. In a capitalist society, to choose a

career is to choose the place that we

are going to occupy in that society.

If we want to be rich, it is better

to make the right choice: being

a doctor, being a lawyer, being a

scientist or being an engineer. To

be successful, we need to get into a

profession that opens the right door

to success. This is what the media

have taught to generations that keep

capitalism on track. A lot of times,

we don't follow our dreams—our

vocations—and instead we choose

a career that will bring us money

and status.

Why do we prefer status over the

lives that we were meant to live?

Why do we renegade our talents

to be sitting in offi ce cubicles with

small windows (if we’re lucky!)?

Because of status! Because

capitalism is a society of image!

Because we need to show more than

to be! We need to prove that we are

successful: that we are on the right

road. We follow role models: those

considered successful and jobs that

bring more status.

Thinking in this way, it doesn’t

matter if a taxi driver and a teacher

make the same amount of money.

Tamires Criscio

Struggling to fi nd your Way

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of plastic surgery and, of course,

many of these huge companies

are headquartered in Europe and

the United States. Since cosmetic

surgery makes a lot of money, they

encourage people to have it.

Recently, a couple of companies

started to advertise their products

to the masses rather than doctors

in South Korea. One of them

employed a celebrity famous for her

TV show that introduces cosmetics

and beauty tips. Consumers have

been interested in this product and

call it by her name.

We didn’t decide our standards

of beauty, and we didn’t choose the

surgery by ourselves. As Western

culture distorts our ideas of beauty,

and companies incite our desires,

we cannot be satisfi ed with our

own appearance whoever we are.

We will lose our self-confi dence

without artifi cial operations.

Children will have low self-esteem

because of what they have received

from their parents. Even so, we

cannot have their faces, even if we

get plastic surgery a hundred times.

Then what can be done to bring

the return of our own standards of

beauty? We have faced Western

culture and accepted the criteria

from our childhood. Therefore, it is

important to educate our children.

At home, parents can talk to their

kids about what is beautiful. At

school, teachers can make classes

to teach and discuss about various

kinds of beauty. In society, we

can organize NGOs and carry on

campaigns. Advertising may also

be helpful to arouse public opinion.

No matter how strongly I say

that this is because of the effect of

dominant foreign infl uences and the

business abilities of multinational

companies, you cannot be one of

them: it’s you who decides whether

or not to get plastic surgery. If

you’ve made up your mind, I can’t

stop you. But, please consider at

least one more time whether this is

your true desire or the infl uence of

others.

Another sucker goes under the knife

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all its components, and it was a

good thing for civilization that this

system died. However, 1989 was

the defeat not of communism but

of Stalinism, a system that relied

only on repression and a sprawling

bureaucracy, impeding the idea of a

free society.

Stalinism’s failure doesn’t

bring into question the basic idea

of communism. It’s the way that

the Soviet Union and its satellites

applied its principles that failed.

However/anyhow, considering

that capitalism can’t resolve

the economic and ecological

contradictions, the only logical

outcome is the end of a world

managed by the blind search for

profi t. Communism, that is to say

Marxist communism, includes

things wider than the Bolshevik

party.

There are other types of

experiments, such as the Commune

de Paris in 1871. Certainly, it lasted

only two months, but its system

of organization, the democracy

that it had settled, offered an

image of communism different

from what took place in Russia.

All the experiments in the 20th

century ended in failure, and

hope disappeared, even though

communism remains in the current

events of the world, rising under

the shape of anti-globalization and

a new internationalism.

The real struggle of people is to

fi nd a system where the economy

is taken over and regulated by

the government, where natural

resources and the benefi ts of work

are redistributed on an equal basis

among everyone and not reserved

for the minority, ever-decreasing

and ever-greedy, a system where

politics become again everyone’s

concern, ensuring to all access

to food, health, education and

happiness.

And this is the fi rst meaning of

the word communism: common,

the pooling of goods, and it shows

us the path to take. This text is not

an apology for communism, but we

need to get rid of our stereotype

and stop seeing Stalinism and

communism as being the same

thing. Stalin’s paranoia and warped

vision of communism killed 20

million people.. Nevertheless,

democracy and communism are

compatible.

Just read the Manifesto of the

Communist Party, and you’ll see

that the original idea of Karl Marx is

greater than you had ever imagined.

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Imagine that you ride a bus to

your school or work. When

the bus passes a hospital,

suddenly a commercial

comes from speakers inside the

bus. The advertisement says,

‘You can be beautiful! We are

the best plastic surgeons. Please

come to our clinic.’ Is this situation normal? If you

live in Seoul, yes, it is. Tracing

where the bus is with GPS,

broadcasting advertising suitable

for each neighborhood, and

someone saying that you are ugly

so you need some artifi cial changes

are all too normal in South Korea

Nowadays, many South Koreans

get plastic surgery. The media even

state, ‘South Korea is the republic

of cosmetic surgery’. People—

mostly women—yearn to have

double eyelid surgery (also known

as blepharoplasty) in order to make

their eyes appear bigger. Also

common are operations to heighten

the bridge of the nose (rhinoplasty)

and sharpen the jawline. Most

patients are in their early 20s. Such

operations have also become very

common with high school students.

Struggling to be Beautiful

In South Korea, we can be

exposed to advertising about plastic

surgeons everywhere. If you go to

the street, you will see a billboard.

If you take the subway, you will

see a poster on the wall inside the

train. When you read a magazine,

listen to the radio, and surf the

Internet, there are advertisements

for cosmetic enhancement.

These commercials whisper

to me that it is the best and only

way to become beautiful. So

I unconsciously imagine my

appearance with bigger eyes even

though I have my own natural

double eyelids.

Right after I arrived in Toronto,

I talked to a Brazilian friend about

cosmetic surgery. She wondered

why South Koreans would want

to do such a thing. I told her that

many South Koreans would like

to have bigger eyes because it

is beautiful to us. However, she

couldn’t understand that. She said

that many Brazilians also have

cosmetic surgery, but they wish to

have bigger breasts and hips. After

this conversation, I wondered why

South Koreans think it is beautiful

to have ‘Western’ eyes.

InYoung Ham

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Why do South Koreans get

surgery? The answer is simple. It’s

because being more ‘fashionably’

beautiful makes it easier to live

in our society. People often

experience discrimination because

of their appearance. Kids who are

not considered pretty can be bullied

by their classmates at school, and

a good-looking person has more

chances to get a job (especially if

you have to attach your photo to

your résumé as we do in Korea).

Then why are bigger eyes,

more prominent noses, and sharp

jawlines more beautiful to us?

There are 2 types of models in South

Korea: most of them are models

in TV commercials and fashion

magazines that look like Western

people. Of course, they have

double eyelids, more prominent

noses and tapered jawlines. The

others look Asian but not one of

the ordinary South Koreans. They

are stereotypes of Asians, the kind

that Westerners expect to see. We

called them ‘Mulan face’ after Walt

Disney’s heroine in the animated

movie.

These show that South Koreans

base their standards of beauty on

the Western model. My mother’s

generation thought someone with

a round face and Asian eyes was

charming. On the other hand, with

the acceptance of modern culture

and the effect of globalization,

our ideals have changed. From

Hollywood movies to Starbucks,

American culture has conquered

our lives. Now, South Korea is

a colony of Western culture, and

we have shared the criterion with

Western people both willingly and

through force.

Moreover, with the conquest

by Western culture, there are huge

multinational pharmaceutical

companies profi ting by the trend

A surgery ad on screendoor on the subway platform in South Korea.