Word: alienating
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This position has integrity, even though it can seem at times cruel and alien to much of human experience. Most of us know that the force of sexuality, perhaps the most powerful in human life, regularly breaks through such narrow boundaries. But the church insists that its prohibitions are not intended to isolate or wound the divorced, or homosexuals or teenagers in love. Its doctrinal rigidity is maintained out of compassion and besides, the church has no other choice than to uphold the truth, however painful for those caught in humanity's crooked timber...
...Sherpa, more than any other, changed this attitude. "In Tenzing Norgay," writes his grandson, "there developed something more, something almost alien to his race, this was a passion for and an ambition to climb mountains, specifically Everest." As a boy, while he herded yaks on the high mountain pastures with Chomolungma?as Everest is known by the Sherpas?looming above, he had grown to consider it his mountain...
...That may sound a little hysterical to the rest of the Mcworld, but spare a thought for those who actually have to market Big Macs to a population primed to view them as alien invaders out to ruin their sacred "alimentary behavior." Co-opting Asterix may simply have been a case of the judo of globalization - use your enemy's momentum against...
...This is hardly the first time McDonald's France has aligned itself with symbols alien to, and even at odds with America's own. In 1998, for example, the company ran a print ad campaign featuring overweight cowboys complaining about the fact that McDonald's France refuses to buy American beef but uses only French, to "guarantee maximum hygienic conditions" - an unsubtle effort to identify the Global Arches with European efforts to block the import of hormone-laced American beef...
...well on the jihadi front. The terrorism espoused by several militant groups has effectively dirtied a cause even moderate Pakistanis consider sacred. Indigenous Kashmiri militants, for their part, complain privately that Pakistan has hijacked their movement by throwing into the mix extremists alien to their moderate culture. Indeed, the two groups India accuses of masterminding the bombing of its Parliament are dominated by non-Kashmiri zealots, many of them veterans of the Afghan-Soviet...