Word: humanization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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With decisions no longer driven by opposition to communism, America can increase human rights consideration in foreign policy. And the State Department has taken this opportunity in Southeast Asia, where the U.S. is finally moving toward peace with the Vietnamese, 45 years after its initial involvement there...
Fifteen years ago, this peasant-based, uneducated Maoist group committed some of the worst human rights atrocities in recent (and long-term) history. Led by the radical Pol Pot, they overran the capital, Phnom Penh, in 1975 and proceeded to slaughter one in seven of their fellow citizens. Most city dwellers were herded into concentration camp-like "reeducation" communes in the countryside, better known as the killing fields...
...liberal institution. Its historic treatment of women, homosexuals, Jews and heretic Christians, among others, has been quite appalling. Although the Church is truly universal in that it includes members from all races and on all continents, its Roman hierarchy is still dominated by white, European men. Its views on human sexuality, feminism, birth control and the family are often extremely conservative--perhaps unrealistically so. All too often, the most vociferous conservative voices in the institution choose only these issues as the focal points of their moral crusades...
...readily admit that I am not the best Catholic or the best liberal. I am very human; thus I am often very wrong. Likewise, the institution of the church has made many mistakes through the centuries. But as the Bible makes clear, any human institution is imperfect because of the weaknesses of people, not of the faith behind...
Instead of working with metal or wood or stone, Olejarz chooses to use the human body. He performs spontaneously, employing certain gestures to arouse amusement or excitement in his audience...