Word: imperialist
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...State of Mind offers no unexpected insights about what North Koreans think of themselves and the world, but it does provide some tantalizing clues. One of the gymnasts tells her mother "bye-bye" as she leaves for school?a blatant misuse of the language of their imperialist enemy. And her friend's grandfather, a construction worker, mentions that he is building a large market ("We people are all curious about such a market," he says), suggesting that economic reforms are filtering through to everyday life. These snippets shed little light, but A State of Mind is illuminating in one very...
...Rich Square, North Carolina, really an unrepentant traitor, as the U.S. Army charged? Accusations that he had made several broadcasts across the DMZ urging others in his unit to join him in the North-not to mention his roles in a number of 1980s propaganda films as a Yankee imperialist devil-seemed to suggest that he was. Or was he kidnapped by North Korean agents and brainwashed, as some family members and supporters claimed? Was he a privileged and pampered ward of the Hermit Kingdom, a trophy apostate to America's wicked capitalist ways? Or was he forced to suffer...
...Harvard professor will be getting ready for election day by reading from his new book, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism. West argues that if America is to become a better steward of democratization around the world, we must first wake up to the long history of imperialist corruption that has plagued our own democracy. Sponsored by the Harvard Bookstore. 7:00 p.m. First Parish Church, 3 Church Street...
...China, Nike is hardly viewed as the ugly imperialist. In fact, the company's celebration of American culture is totally in synch with the Chinese as they hurtle into a chaotic, freer time. In July, at a Nike three-on-three competition in the capital, a Chinese DJ named Jo Eli played songs like I'll Be Damned off his Dell computer. "Nike says play hip-hop because that's what blacks listen to," he says. "The government doesn't exactly promote these things. But we can all expose ourselves to something new." That sounds pretty close to a Chinese...
...small slice of curmudgeonly Cantabs, Harvard can do no right. Harvard is imperialist. Harvard is sanctimonious. Like some watered-down Declaration of Independence, the list of grievances goes...