Arab Spring: Why People Join A Social Movement

People decide to join social movements for many reasons. People all around the world join social movements because they will likely have an enormous impact on their nation or environment around them. Social movements usually focus on trying to create change in politics or social issues. These social movements can be started just because of one person. Arab Spring is a huge social movement that mainly started because of one man in Tunisia. Mohamed Bouazzi was being treated poorly by the police, and they took away took his food he was trying to sell. After this Bouazzi set himself on fire to demonstrate his feelings. He survived the incident, but he later died at the hospital. Once he died tons of people flooded the streets in protest. They wanted

The people in Tunisia that participated in the protest obviously felt the same way as Bouazzi. They all joined forces together and decided to start and enormous social movement. Everyone wanted change and did not want their friends and family being abused anymore. After Tunisia, many other countries started to follow in protest. One of the countries that followed in protest after Tunisia was Egypt. All of the citizens of Egypt joined a social movement because they also wanted changed in their government. People become mobilized in a social movement once they see other people participating in the social movement. When someone sees another person involved in a social movement with the same opinions, they will join in with them. Citizens involved in social movements are the cause of the growth and activity of the social movement. The citizens of Egypt were mobilized after they saw a few protesters in the

In the past, some religions used to be more important than governments. When a religion has more power than a government, it can make many people act how it wants them to. Religion was also used to mobilize people during Arab Spring. Without religion it would have been harder to form new social movements and create change. Since so many people follow a religion in the Middle East, the social movements were easier to create. The important figures of certain religions gathered up the followers and created social protest to create change. The people participating in these social movements were extremely passionate about their religion and beliefs. This is why these social movements had such strong influence and motivation throughout the