Magazine Commentary: Melania and Newspaper Article

magazine commentary: I was waiting for something "official," -- a newspaper article, an editorial or magazine commentary, and not just the random Facebook memes and posts that called Melania anywhere from a "Slovenian immigrant with a thick accent," to a "dumb bitch with big boobs" and "only good for blow jobs." I did not have to wait long, according to Rabble. On Wednesday, a Washington Post article written by Monika Nalepa, an associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago, was quick to draw the link between Melania hyped up plagiarism act and the so-called culture of cheating in Eastern European schools. Or, should I say, until the ready-made Eastern Bloc stereotypical rhetoric would tease out through the North American gaze. And here is Nalepa logical reasoning: since Melania is from Eastern Europe , and everyone cheats in Eastern Europe, Melania is, by extension, a cheater -- hence, no wonder she plagiarized. In other words, Melania act of plagiarism had nothing to do with a personal behavioral tendency to "borrow" content, nor with the volatility of Trump campaign, nor with in-house staff writers' predispositions , but rather with the fact that Melania originates from, and studied in the former Eastern Bloc. According to Nalepa, in the educational system, learning implied: a) memorization ; b) lack of critical questioning, since this went contrary to the state supported ideology of communism ; and c) systematic support for cheating ; hence d) the memorization practice coupled with cheating generally led to an easy appropriation of intellectual work, also explanatory for Melania fraud. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.