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...respect her efforts to expand our collective cultural experience. Unfortunately, by using her artistic license to syncretize Hindu and South Asian cultural elements with the Western performance culture, Madonna ran the risk of trivializing the faith of others. What began as a well-intentioned impulse to enrich our multicultural milieu backfired by alienating the very people whose traditions she was attempting to introduce to the general population...
Gunesekera's milieu is that of young girls reading Father Brown mysteries under the mango trees, and his language is crunchy with indigenous hybrids (a golfer's swing is "flatter than a Bambalapitiya cheesecake"). Here he simply unravels the story of two rival clans occupying a piece of land once developed by an English captain with a house called Arcadia. By the end of the book, one scion is running a Shangri-La Hotel, and a matriarch is being buried in chilly London, at a funeral without mourners...
...opinion we must not search for a uniform model of freedom for all people. We must endeavor to create a desirable milieu in which people can more easily tolerate one another and come up with an agreed definition of freedom and, accordingly, streamline the society...
...added the missing reflective component to the program," Johnson said. "You can't be a good human servant unless you have a conception of the milieu in which you are serving...
Haibo credits his ease adjusting to his background growing up in an academic milieu where travel abroad was common...