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...citing the decline of public services, continued high unemployment and balance of payments deficits. The social peace that has characterized Soares' term has been shattered by several violent demonstrations and bombings. Earlier this month, 20,000 right-wing demonstrators-including wealthy businessmen, dirt farmers from the north and neo-Nazi youth-marched through Lisbon to show their discontent...
Spiegel knows that his theory will not be easily accepted. "I couldn't believe it at first myself," says the psychiatrist, who was trained as a neo-Freudian. "Now I've made a 180° turnaround. Today I believe that the major determination of who we are as people is pretty much decided when the sperm meets...
With this soon-to-be-published study, Harvard Sociology professor Orlando Patterson jumps into the ethnicity fray with both feet forward. To the unmasking of the neo-conservatism of the new ethnicity spokesmen he adds a trenchant and remarkably comprehensive critique of the psychological and sociological sources of the appeal to ethnicity, and more important, shows how this appeal has traditionally translated into reactionary and implicitly fascistic social and political action...
Perhaps the most provocative part of the book comes in Patterson's analysis of what he calls the "intellectual treachery" of America's group of neo-conservative once-liberal Jews. These champions of new ethnicity are, he observes, by and large second or third generation immigrants, uprooted from their European cultures and, as Jews, haunted by the idea of being exiled from the homeland, or belonging to a pariah class. Via intellectual cosmopolitanism, and either political left-liberalism or socialism, they compensated by making the world their home. But in the past 50 years, the holocaust and the subsequent creation...
...these vituperative attacks on the dangerous and dysfunctional elements of ethnic chauvinism, Patterson has as much in mind the difficult road ahead for the developing Third World nations as the reactionary pettiness of the current neo-ethnicity movement in the U.S. And he concludes that if the modern world is to see any lasting structural social change toward a more egalitarian world order, it must transcend this historically cyclical pattern of "ethnic revivalism...