Word: americanã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aware of being, in some sense, a peripheral Harvard Indian-American??or at least one who is still getting her bearings. I had never heard the terms South Asian or brown before college. I still haven’t brought myself to use the latter in regular speech, maybe because in grade school race had predominantly been presented as a negative social construct. Not knowing that I had a color provided a comfortable layer of separation from these discussions. And my perhaps irrational fears of being a stereotype led me to wildly equivocate every time...
...story of Medicare shows that government-sponsored healthcare can work efficiently, and that a vastly-expanded federal insurance network does a lot to solve the problem of the uninsured in America. A single payer system—a Medicare-style program that covers every American??would prevent redundant bureaucracy, enable effective cost control and ensure that no American is denied needed healthcare thanks to the greed of a private insurer. It is time to complete the work that Lyndon Johnson began in 1965; it is time to provide health insurance for everyone...
...psychological warfare to marginalize targets while solidifying the preeminence of their group—in my case Albanian—in the basement. Baseless complaints to a sympathetic boss about the less-senior Columbian, idle gossip spread through the tenant population about the Canadian, active disparagement of the Irish-American??these are the tommy guns in the Doorman Mafia’s violin cases...
Until we witness cultural changes that encourage more moderation, we will continue to be the improvident consumers we are today. But if we wish to keep the bear from going the way of the average American??ballooning to obesity and cutting down on life expectancy—then we must at least encourage more recycling and less wastefulness. The future is in our pudgy and prodigal hands...
First of all, integration has nothing to do with the headscarf. They are simply unrelated issues—women who wear the scarf have a wide variety of relationships to French secular society. I would be deeply offended if my fellow American Muslims were called “un-American?? simply because some of us choose to wear the headscarf. But even if the headscarf does indeed represent a segregation of communities, the ban will do nothing to help integrate France. In response to the ban, Muslim parents may take their children out of public schools and place...