Word: imperialistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hasn't work and a chance for a better life for the once colonized been the great cause of the antimilitarist, anti-imperialist left for the past 40 years? Of course, earning a few dollars a day making running shoes is undesirable compared with the life of Western workers. But it is infinitely better than the subsistence farming these workers have left behind--and to which they would be forced to return should their supposed friends succeed in stopping trade by imposing Western-style labor and environmental standards that no Third World manufacturer could meet...
...ideas atop the history of events. There are a couple of implicit morals. The first is that cultures that turned inward, notably China (the breakout star of the show, with an apparent big role in the sequel), have not fared so well as those that were outward looking, even imperialist. The second is that the era's driving force, for good and for ill, is human arrogance. This millennium is a graveyard of eternal empires, authoritative explanations and overreaching ambitions that--like Isaacs'--every so often manage to show us something new under...
...Adams does prove victorious, their imperialist ambitions may not end there...
Meanwhile, the larger historical framework surrounding the controversy, such as the United States' very recent imperialist past (and some might argue present) in Puerto Rico and the treatment of Puerto Ricans as second-class citizens in the United States has been shunted aside in favor of blanket accusations about the tolerance of violence and the cat-and-mouse game of political point-scoring. What was an opportunity for Americans, particularly politicians, to educate themselves about Puerto Rico's history and its complicated relationship with the United States, as well as about the status and treatment of Puerto Ricans...
Russia is wary of listening to America's views on tolerance and even when I am trying to explain the difference between "Afro-American" and "nigger," Russians sometimes make me feel as though I am a cultural imperialist. In this non-American society, it is incredibly difficult--and most of the time, futile--to explain why one must not use the "n-word." In Russian, the normal word for someone who is black is very similar, and the term "black person" is considered pejorative. To suggest that they use the term "Afro-American" elicits eye-rolling and cackles of laughter...