A fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger.

Indeed, to fear, hope, and humiliation, I would now add a fourth and decisive cultural mood modesty.

But it was, above all, the sense of encirclement and humiliation that united the deeply divided Japanese government.

They, too, are humiliated by their leaders performance and, more deeply, their vulgar despotic essence.

And, while males inflicted torture, degradation in the presence of women enhanced the humiliation.

Did you ever feel that desperate, frustrated, humiliated, and demeaned in a country of 7,000 years of civilization?

Indeed, today s Russians have no nostalgia for the Yeltsin years, which they associate with confusion, humiliation, shame and weakness.

The anti Japanese demonstrations are a symptom of the old syndrome, fueled by grievances born at a time when China was, indeed, aggrieved and humiliated.

Here, perhaps, is the real clash of civilizations the emotional conflict between the European culture of fear and the Muslim, particularly Arab, culture of humiliation.

What followed were many hours of harassment, humiliation, threats with live hand grenades, shots fired at the feet of one of our colleagues, and looting and ransacking of the IRC premises.

This is the core of bin Laden s appeal the ability to articulate the profound sense of injustice and humiliation that many Arabs and Muslims feel today.

At the same time, the demonstrations represent China s experience of the world as an unequal place where the weak are inevitably bullied, exploited, and humiliated.

Consider what the Greek Cypriot community has achieved a thriving economy, no one living under conditions of misery and humiliation in camps, membership in the European Union compared to the catastrophe the Palestinian choice has brought to their own people.

On behalf of our suffering citizens, I would like to take this opportunity to remind the Council that it is its obligation, and that it is bound, under resolutions 770 and 836, as well as the Charter which created the Council, to take concrete measures to save the civilian population from further killing, hardships and humiliation.

The latest agreement did halt, or at least interrupt, the eurozone s biggest crisis to date, culminating in an unprecedented period of antipathy, opprobrium, humiliation, pestering, and blackmail within Europe. Indeed, Greece came within a hair s breadth of leaving the eurozone.

The questions asked of politicians by journalists are often so aggressive or implicitly insulting that one wonders why their recipients don t walk out of interviews in a huff, or wither on the spot from humiliation.

Refusing to accept the status of inferiority and degradation forced upon them, they organized themselves early on to wage a long struggle by all necessary means against their exclusion from the political process through the denial of the right to vote, through the infamous pass laws, and through being forced to live on quot native reserves quot .