Word: americanization
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...There was a lot of criticism in the Japanese press that she was too American,” said Nadine H. Jacobson ’85, Owada’s Thayer floormate. “I remember thinking, as I knew Masako she was the quintessential Japanese. She was smart and respectful and reserved...
...cultures, including working as a research assistant translating Japanese documents for History Professor Andrew D. Gordon ’74 during the spring of her junior year. Gordon also served on the committee for Owada’s initial proposal for her economics senior thesis on Japanese-American trade relations in the 1980s, for which economist Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76 served as her advisor...
...solving. Its reliance on specious standards of “reasonable suspicion” that seemed to entail nothing further than “looking” like an illegal immigrant remains unacceptable. More horrifying, perhaps, this bill will negatively affect the nation’s Hispanic and Latin-American communities, who will undoubtedly be the first to suffer from profiling and the last to have...
...months, and much of that change has been for better. Still, reactionary responses to big issues sully the national discourse and subject complex problems to the visceral, not the cerebral. Only by adopting a level-headed, considerate, and thoughtful approach to national policies can we craft the idealized American community that we strive...
...rumor, and sell the news." The perception that Goldman Sachs and many, if not all, of the investment banks on Wall Street are crowded with evil, greedy people fuels a perception that leads to a cancerous cynicism and the erosion of confidence. The American capital markets, which are based upon trust and confidence, hang in the balance. Standing on their own, laws don’t instill trust and confidence. Laws with competent and fair enforcement do engender market vitality, confidence, and trust...