Word: self-respect
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...supposed to be a ticket to self-respect and social betterment -- at least that's what the pols tell us when the poor start clamoring for their welfare checks. But conditions in the low-wage end of the work force are beginning to look like what Friedrich Engels found in 19th century Manchester and described as immiserization. Within 10 miles of my suburban home, for example, there is a factory where (until they got a union contract a year ago) the workers slept in their cars and bathed in the restroom -- because, at the minimum wage, housing...
...Greece or Turkey would have been invited into peasant homes, offered an ouzo or a handful of ripe plums. Even in remote villages now, such hospitality -- the essence of what travel to another culture is about -- is pretty much a thing of the past. Says historian Norwich: "Tourism brutalizes. Self-respect gives way to servility, good manners to surliness, and hospitality to cupidity and suspicion." To try to educate tourists to be more sensitive travelers, the World Wildlife Fund has put out a series of booklets on ways to avoid abusing the environment...
...indeed, insists on -- different kinds of sounds for different kinds of audiences. "I think the British invasion will happen again," predicts Mike Edwards, the lead singer of Jesus Jones. Fishbone combines an upside-your-head musical assault with some pointed lyrics. "Forgive us for we have no control or self-respect," goes Junkie's Prayer. "Grim reaper has cashed my life-savings check/ Thy rocketh and thy pipeth restoreth...
...must completely physically open themselves in sex, and therefore they are completely vulnerable emotionally, physically and psychologically. If a man views a woman's expression of affection as a weakness to be exploited in his conquest, he destroys her respect for the affection she gave and thus destroys her self-respect, her self-image, her capacity for free self-expression...
...that you have joined your club, please remember me. Please do not allow the group pressures that naturally emerge from closed social situations to allow you to lose your self-respect or your respect for others. What will you say when one of your clubbies mentions "cheap pussy" or "fags...