Unfortunately throughout the campaign when speaking in strongly Sunni areas Prime Minister Erdogan made sure to mention the opposition leader's Alevi roots thereby galvanizing audiences into jeering anti-Alevi slogans and creating a spirit of divisiveness that does not augur well for an inclusive and multi-confessional democracy.
This rolls out regularly from local elections and beyond, to most recently the changing of a school mascot -- which has been the hotbed issue du jour, creating a great deal of divisiveness.
Aid alone does not achieve this; encouraging a flourishing private sector does.Likewise, creating a national identity helps to trump the politics of ethnic divisiveness by persuading people not to vote blindly for the party of their ethnic group, as happened in Kenya at the end of 2007.
He also addresses the critical role of organizational leaders in creating a tolerant, cohesive corporate culture, and reflects on the broader societal implications of divisiveness.
"The president can speak for himself, but his feeling was that we needed to come together to not create a picture of divisiveness at a time of genuine national crisis". Later in the evening, McConnell introduced legislation to extend current spending levels and the federal borrowing limit until Dec. 8 and increase disaster funding to $15.25 billion.
"The president can speak for himself, but his feeling was that we needed to come together to not create a picture of divisiveness at a time of genuine national crisis". The Senate is expected to approve the package when it comes up for a vote and send it to the House for final approval.
We've created a situation where divisiveness looks like a legitimately progressive choice, and we're all to blame for that.
"The president can speak for himself, but his feeling was that we needed to come together to not create a picture of divisiveness at a time of genuine national crisis.
"It reflects that this is an inclusive process: to commemorate one of the saddest days in American history, and to create any divisiveness, in the form of two or three separate memorials, would be exclusionary," says Ms. Menin, meditatively rubbing her stomach as she talks.
While not creating the divisiveness, he is certainly stirring it up, giving a segment of the population what they want.
