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Ballyhoo aside, a distinction needs to be drawn between imperialism and modernization, too often conflated in the West and elsewhere. Ireland herself provides an instructive example. In the 1600s Oliver Cromwell subjugated the Emerald Isle, massacring thousands of Irish civilians and confiscating most of their landholdings. In the ensuing centuries, the Irish people were subjected to harshly discriminatory anti-Catholic laws. That was imperialism. In the past few decades, the European Union’s development grants to Ireland have helped transform the nation into a prosperous, open economy with a highly-educated workforce and an impressive growth rate. That...
...Belize also says, "I hate America," so we're not exactly joining hands and singing Kumbayah here. But Angels is nonetheless a deeply American play (and movie and TV show) because it captures how Americans--be it in the 1600s, in the 1980s or today--perpetually believe themselves to be on the cusp of great change, even apocalypse. This is true now for obvious reasons. As Kushner notes, "Today, you can say we're approaching the end of things without sounding like a nut ... Those towers collapsing--it looked like something from a tarot deck." But even before 9/11, millennialism...
...Phan Thiet lies on one of Vietnam's finest stretches of sun and sand, and the French-colonial presence still lingers in the town's slow, relaxed atmosphere. Binh Thuan province, where the town is located, was part of the Cham kingdom until the late 1600s. The Cham Towers, the largest monuments built by the Cham people, still stand on a hill overlooking the town...
...Chinese culture after the noodles, head for the hills to Tera-machi, or temple street, so named for the shrines that flank its winding path, the largest of them built by Chinese immigrants in the early 1600s. It's a great place to jog in the early morning, when the air is thick with incense and the temple keepers sweep the grounds...
...Bible, Job correctly assumes he is personally targeted. (The reader knows he is the object of a wager between God and Satan.) The Guthries must wonder, Have they too been selected for their fate? In the 1600s, such a couple might have seen their plight as evidence that they had sinned or were passed over for salvation. But American Protestants have largely abandoned such harsh Calvinism. At Hope's memorial, the Guthries' pastor, Charles McGowan, recalled Jesus' encounter with the blind man. When asked, "Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus replies...