Word: alienated
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When Webb and DeGiorgio declare that our society is based on Judeo-Christian tradition, they really mean that our society is based upon Christian tradition, which appropriated Jewish sources and overlayed them with new, often alien, interpretations. Their citation of the "Old Testament" as a central Jewish text is a case in point. Give a Jewish book a Christian name and a Christian interpretation, and the result is--Christianity...
Endangered species, a significant portion of the contraband smuggled into Taiwan, appeal to rich consumers there for a number of reasons. Environmentalism is a new and alien concept; Chinese society tends to emphasize the utility of animals. Exotic pets are status symbols, while pelts are hung in the homes of the wealthy. Eating elaborately prepared dishes featuring endangered animals carries mystical connotations of power. This is jinbu: if you eat a tiger's eyes, for example, your eyes are said to assume the acuity of a tiger's. Many folk medicines are made from the teeth or organs of exotic...
...best, alternately conforming to and rebelling against the century-old traditions of the school. She was elected vice president of her senior class and excelled in English. But Cary also tried marijuana for the first time the night before an exam. And she actively avoided blending into the "alien" white culture--Cary "took the offensive and bore my gifts proudly" in conversations about race...
...secret of much murder and evildoing is to dehumanize the victim, to make him alien, to make him Other, a different species. When we have done that, we have prepared ourselves to kill him, for to kill the Other, to kill a snake, a roach, a pest, a Jew, a scorpion, a black, a centipede, a Palestinian, a hyena, an Iraqi, a wild dog, an Israeli...
...lasting reaction, besides outrage of one kind or another, may have been a sense of being in the presence of a mystery. "Nothing human is alien to me," Terence said, but this gross, offhand brutality, dealt out by guardians of the law, seemed alien enough and disturbing on a fairly deep emotional and moral level...