Word: americanization
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...backwards” attitude sometimes projected toward the developing world, one that has plagued American foreign policy for over a century, has become obsolete. In the end, subjective standards underline the semantic distinction between developed and developing—which suggests a dominance of the former’s culture, as well as its economic system and political activities. It is this complex that likely invites anti-American hostility from abroad. But so as long as we acknowledge our own faults, failures, and weaknesses, and maintain respect for others’ political and cultural sovereignties, countries will see no need...
...market to be capitalized, but a country of its own, with unwritten stories of slumdog millionaires that outnumber America’s four-to-one. Why say that India lags a decade behind the U.S., when its course should be its own? History has already written the American path toward economic and cultural modernization. Now, let India have its turn...
...There is a long history of using the Census to push for better visibility in American political and economic life. Some of the first lobbying came from Eastern Europeans in the 19th century. But the perfection of identity politics in the 20th kicked the conversation to a whole new level - not that there hasn't been some trepidation along the way. Going into the 1970 Census, groups representing people with disabilities tried to keep a question about handicaps off the questionnaire, afraid it would foster stereotypes. Instead, the data that came back helped bolster support for federal programs to help...
...Census won't actually mail out its 10-question form to every U.S. household until next March. But the job for cities, states and organizations representing every stripe of American society is to get as many people as possible to mail the form back, and that work is already happening. (Read a bio of Robert M. Groves, Obama's pick as the Census chief...
...American society, there's a whole political logic of fairness proportionate to our numbers," says Kenneth Prewitt, a professor of public affairs at Columbia University and former director of the Census Bureau. "This is where that starts." A big score in that regard this year: for the first time the Census will put out a report on the number of people reporting to be in gay marriages...