Word: anglo
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...holding us back now than used to be the case." Never a fan of the ambiguous word "multiculturalism," he also rejects the idea that Australia could build a federation of cultures. "There's no such thing as a nation without a dominant culture," he says. "We have a dominant Anglo-Saxon culture. It's our language, our literature, our institutions ... You can be part of the mainstream culture and still have a place in your life and your heart for your home country...
...been ignored for almost two years by the government for which he once worked, but the big man is finally shaking things up. Over the past month Githongo, a fastidious diary keeper, has leaked to the bbc and to Kenyan newspapers a timeline of his investigation into a company, Anglo Leasing and Finance, that in 2003 was awarded a contract worth tens of millions to produce tamper-proof passports for Kenya's immigration department. But it didn't produce passports or, in fact, exist beyond a British address that Britain's Serious Fraud Office says it is now investigating...
...hundred and sixty-six years ago this week, Lord Palmerston, the great British Foreign Secretary, sent a letter to the Imperial Chinese government that paved the way for the 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese conflict, the “Opium War.” It’s a brilliantly snappy name that sneakily prejudges the issue: The world is now convinced that the war was a case of commercial and imperialist British greed trying to force opium on the Chinese.The world is wrong.By 1840, the British had several difficulties with China. For a decade, London had rejected China?...
...catalogue of more than a million songs - is the world's largest, with a market share analysts estimate at around 20%. Last month, EMI Music reached a first-of-its-kind agreement with two royalties collection societies - Britain's mcps-prs Alliance and Germany's gema - to offer its Anglo-American songs under a single, one-stop license to European mobile and online services, rather than on a clunky territory-by-territory basis. And consumers - especially teens - are embracing the new technology with fervor. Ringtune sales of Atlanta rap group Dem Franchize Boyz's single, I Think They Like...
...usefully combined in one person a variety of European constituencies. As the former Prime Minister of Portugal - a fascist dictatorship until the 1970s - he was expected to understand the aspirations of the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe; as an economic liberal and an Atlanticist - but not an Anglo-Saxon - he should have been able to bridge the gap between new and old Europe that opened up before the Iraq war. Above all, he was a fresh face. The two previous presidencies, led by Jacques Santer of Luxembourg and Romano Prodi of Italy, had left many disappointed and hoping...