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...idiot," he says. "People use whatever physical characteristic they can to provoke someone." Carles Viñas, author of The World of the Ultras: Spanish Football's Rad-icals, disagrees. "There's a lot of hypocrisy in Spain about this," he says. "People don't want to admit to the racism that exists in this country." Piara Powar, director of Kick It Out, a London-based organization that works to combat racism in soccer, concurs. "The problems in Spain," he says, "stem from the way in which the subjects of race and ethnicity are not really part of public debate...
...Failing to rein in public spending for fear of displeasing those who use and abuse it would amount to precisely that today. In Strange Defeat, a superb essay written in the aftershock of France's capitulation in 1940, the historian Marc Bloch wrote: "Let us have the courage to admit what has just been vanquished in ourselves: it is our cherished small-town ways. The languid passage of the days, the slowness of the buses, the sleepy authorities, the shortsighted political bickering, the unambitious artisans, our taste for déjà vu and distrust of anything unexpected which could...
...seem foolish, or patronizing, of me. But people conduct this kind of internal dialogue all the time; it?s practically unavoidable in our multi-ethnic, politically correct society, where stereotypes and reality collide more often than people would like to think, or admit. While I want to believe that my motivation is benevolent, I recognize the irony of trying to offset racial profiling by engaging in what amounts to just another form...
...example, my parents absolutely expect my child to be able to speak Mandarin,” he writes. “But that’s something I would expect, too.”Even when students are open to the option of interracial dating, many admit it isn’t easy.Lee says his past interracial relationship was an “amazing experience.” At the same time, he added, “I think it was really hard to do.”—Staff writer Lois E. Beckett can be reached...
...going to convince my daughters to be Democrats, and I say, "I have yet to convince my daughters to close a door." I don't how in the world I would ever convince them to be in a political affiliation. I suspect like most parents won't admit, I don't think I have a lot of stroke in the way they think...