Word: mainstreaming
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...even given Jospin's weakness as a candidate, it was still a shock when he got fewer votes in the first round of the election than Jean-Marie Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National Front. Le Pen will now meet President Jacques Chirac - a mainstream conservative - in a runoff on May 5. The National Front's success, wrote the editor of Le Monde last week, has "wounded" and "humiliated" France. Le Pen won't become President; Chirac is all but guaranteed to win the runoff in a landslide, as many supporters of the left, holding their noses...
Catching a primetime exposé on hip hop music last month, it was tempting to lose faith in the mainstream media all over again. True to the sensationalist American “news,” the show blasted mainstream hip hop’s depravity, even admonishing Russell Simmons (Def Jam’s founder) in a comically stern interview for promoting hip hop music in spite of poor literacy levels among black children...
...responsible for his fall from rebellious icon to an under-appreciated caricature. John Lennon once said that “Elvis died the day he went into the army.” Perhaps it would be more precise to say “Elvis died the day he went mainstream.” As money poured in from all directions, Elvis’ “negro singing” and hip-gyrations became safe. No longer perceived as the “devil in disguise,” he was readily accepted into middle-class households. And with...
...dismal turnout for the election. The turnout—although high by American standards—was France’s lowest since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958. Combined with the fracturing of the left wing, the low turnout took so many votes away from the mainstream candidates Chirac and Jospin that their vote counts were far below their past levels. Some voters may have voted for minor party candidates—or even for Le Pen—to protest what they see as a sclerotic political elite. Both Chirac and Jospin have been powerful...
...sees diversity as something of a one-way street: All his life, he’s been exposed to the mainstream, while the reverse isn’t true. “I knew how [white people] danced, what kind of music they liked, their jokes, how they talked, and when I came here, it was like, ‘OK, I’m seeing what I’ve been taught my entire life.’ I wasn’t shocked by any white person here,” he says. “For them...