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...final error was not taking culture seriously enough. There is a large discrepancy between neoconservatism's skepticism of government's ability to change culture at home and its naiveté when it comes to complex, tribal, sectarian cultures abroad...
...Home Again Re "Why do so many of India's Stars Live Abroad?" [Feb. 13]: I applaud the essay by Vir Sanghvi, editorial director of the Hindustan Times, in which he asks why Indians are more successful outside India than at home. Alas, a similar problem plagues Nigeria. Those born in the 1970s who left to study in Britain and the U.S. now want to return home and apply the skills and business practices learned in the West. But their enthusiasm is met with scorn, suspicion and envy. I wonder whether Nigerians feel betrayed or fear the Western work ethic...
...Home Team corollary: actors comprise the largest Academy contingent. A long-standing grievance of the Screen Actors Guild is "runaway productions": movies shot abroad, especially in Canada, that ship jobs out of the U.S. Thus there may be some protectionist resentment against Brokeback, which is set in Wyoming and Texas but was shot mostly in Alberta. This would tilt the Best Picture vote to Crash, a low-budget, L.A.-made movie that?s so teeming with speaking parts it seems to have employed half the SAG members in Southern California...
...While abroad, she gained insights that became vital to her future work through things as simple as joining a group of dancers in her village. She vividly remembers the first moment of dancing with them: “I did not understand from the outside what I did from the inside of the dance. I could stand on the outskirts, watching and analyzing, but putting my body in that movement made me think about it from an entirely different angle...
...time abroad, Foster also focused on the importance of gesture and non-verbal communication, finding, among other things, that movement was intrinsically connected to culture. “It became clear that I was an American mover,” she says. I didn’t know how American I was on so many different levels until I lived in society where that wasn’t the way of moving, of being...