Word: paternalistic
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Reagan, it seems, holds just such an overblown and dangerous vision of American preponderance and Europeans are rightfully angered by his paternalist policies. The idea that the United States can, or should, dictate terms to the allies is as far off base in the pipeline matter as it is with regard to the Israelis in Lebanon. France, Germany, Great Britain and Italy are our allies, not our satellites. It is a strange state of affairs when Reagan wages war for democracy by attempting to emulate the Soviet system of coercion...
...agonizing extent, their fortunes are tied to the fate of the junta which they are convinced has not yet fully been "dismantled" in the homeland. The CIA-junta nexus still exists, they say, and the consulate, with its paternalist attention to their activities in Cambridge, is still linked with the secret police network in Greece. And so some members of the association receive mail from abroad at American friends' names and addresses, in the fear that correspondence is examined...
Percy's attitudes on race, though liberal for his time and place, seem repugnant now; he was a paternalist and he treated blacks with kind condescension. For instance, in a passage that is rephrased throughout Lanterns on the Levee, Percy writes...
...Gulf, only serve to prop up these racist regimes and strengthen the political and economic ties of these regimes to the United States. When these United States corporations, the State Department, and their faithful supporters (such as Harvard University) talk about improving conditions for blacks they betray their paternalist, racist and colonialist mentality and act against the wishes of the African people they claim they are "helping...
...favorite paintings of Indonesian national heroes.) The old pictures sat unceremoniously on the floor: bewigged Johannes Camphuys (1684-91), great governor and great gardener, whose followers introduced coffee-growing to Java; Herman Willem Daendels (1808-11), governor general and dictatorial reformer; Johannes van den Bosch (1830-33), governor general, paternalist exponent of a forced-labor system. The workmen loaded the pictures of the past into a truck to begin their long voyage home...