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...great offense, a great concept unique to Harvard. Some of the premises may be from other areas, but everybody does that...
Bush's strongest rhetorical defenses of free trade as a concept have come in his defense of NAFTA. But NAFTA is a Trojan Horse for gullible free traders. It is no embrace of free trade. Rather, North America is fast becoming merely the latest bloc on the block. Far from being a milestone in trade liberalization, NAFTA is a big step toward the creation of a trade "Fortress America...
More than 2,000 of the Chinese Communist Party's faithful gathered for their 14th Congress and dutifully applauded the concept. The socialist system, said party chief Jiang Zemin, depends on rapid economic growth. At a news conference, Hong Hu, vice minister of an economic-reform commission, was asked to define the socialist market economy. "It is," Hong replied, "a market economy that is subject to the regulation of a socialist country...
Eventually, the Iceman's region and the rest of Europe would catch up with other parts of the world. By 500 B.C., flourishing civilizations had sprung up in Greece, then Rome, and soon spread throughout the Continent. But back when he was plodding through the Alpine passes, the concept of a Eurocentric view of civilization would have been laughable, especially to the sophisticated societies that were thriving in Africa and Asia...
...concept of Asian-Americans as more industrious and able to succeed "on their own" (i.e. without the benefits of affirmative action) was especially popular in the 1960s, when American racial minorities, particularly African-Americans, were demanding social equality. It was "an attempt to rationalize the relationship between Black and white Americans, at the expense of both the Blacks and Asians," says Elaine Kim, associate professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. Obviously, however, individuals such as Choi maintain this disempowering Asian stereotype even today. Choi's article illustrates the damaging effects of this kind of eurocentric...