The actual development of human history shows that Knowledge, as a particular social class, has an extremely important position and role in the modern scientific technological revolution. As science technology become more direct productive forces, intellectuals society becomes increasingly important. Over years, Vietnam always determined is creative workforce, especially process promoting indus...

This paper discusses how the native intellectual can come to terms with challenges of associating both West and East. Some intellectuals are left in a contradicting position where if they choose either or East, that entails become tool for one side against other. I argue resistance does not necessarily have be binary situation is cornered other therefore cannot reconcile two sides. Intellectual...

This analysis of the introduction of racial theories to Brazil and their reception by Brazilian intellectuals in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries looks at miscegenation, racism, and whitening policies through the lenses of two novels that bear witness to the era's mentality: O cortiço (1890; A Brazilian tenement, 1976), by Aluísio Azevedo, and Canaã (1902; Canaan, 1920), by Graça A...

An accurate diagnosis of a problem is an important part of the solution. It is precisely for this reason that the Regional Bureau for Arab States has commissioned a group of distinguished Arab intellectuals to produce the Arab Human Development Report. The wealth of unbiased, objective analysis it contains is part of our contribution to Arab peoples and policy-makers in the search for a brighte...