Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...only does the military not serve as a laboratory for social reform, as it might, it actively impedes the understanding of individual differences. Instead of becoming more cosmopolitan and humane, my best friend from high school has learned bigotry and contempt for differences. He fervently believes the Navy's accusation--almost certainly false--that a homosexual romance gone sour was responsible for the deaths of 47 of his shipmates in an explosion on the USS Iowa. He has been taught--in the absence of any openly gay or lesbian peers--that homosexuality is a threat to the integrity...
...cross the border on foot are often robbed, sometimes by policemen who then turn them in, for payoffs of $30 to $40 per head, to smuggling organizations that take the aliens into the U.S. For this reason, many aliens arriving in Los Angeles from Mexico no longer carry cash. Instead, they are held hostage until smuggling fees are paid by relatives. The smugglers typically cram 20 to 30 aliens in each padlocked room for days on end, leaving them to sleep and defecate on the floor. Occasionally, their heads are shaved in order to subjugate them. "It's human cargo...
...cottage industry in bogus documents. The INS, which estimates that more than 500,000 aliens have used fake papers, is now confiscating more than 10,000 such documents annually (plus 5,000 smuggler-owned cars) just at the main San Diego border crossing. Illegals without fake documents often work instead at newly proliferating sweatshops. A recent Government study estimates that as many as 7,000 sweatshops operate in New York City and Los Angeles alone. "Before IRCA, at least we had the semblance of competition in the workplace," says Muzaffar Chishti, an immigration specialist with the International Ladies' Garment Workers...
...pseudo-lower-middle- class realism of Roseanne and Married with Children, the implicit message in much of prime time remains almost effortless economic entitlement. For while most of the nation resides in what bicoastal types call "the great flyover," TV characters are never rooted in Toledo or Omaha; instead, most spring to life magically equipped with sprawling houses and apartments in glamorous cities like New York and Los Angeles...
Crime is the one arena where prime time drops its Panglossian pose to pander to public hysteria. This is not to argue that the narcotics squad on Nasty Boys should instead pursue jaywalkers or that the cops on Hunter should stop shouting, "Freeze. Police. Drop the gun!" O.K., so you cannot have detective shows without serious crime. But why are sitcoms also menaced by a crime wave that resembles New York City during a blackout? In this single week, there was an interracial team of angry drug dealers on A Different World, a psychotic killer rudely intruding on an office...