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Unless something drastic changes, equality has prevailed. The transparent election-year attempts of social conservatives to drum up a nationwide base of hatred have, for the time being, failed. But if the last year teaches us anything, it should be that archaic bigotry is alive and well in America—and that it can be defeated...
Without boldness and creativity, dance would still be in the formative stages we remember from the glittery ball scenes in Shakespeare in Love. Although seemingly archaic today, even ballet was in its time a breakthrough...
...warm rush of impropriety in shouting at the female characters often overcomes me. But fear not, I do feel ashamed at getting caught up in this hateful display towards women—men don’t get a great run either, but the stereotypes for women are often archaic. In trying to rationalize my enjoyment, I don’t bother with the debate as to whether these programs are scripted or simply acted out. In the end, our gravest generalizations about the sexes are confirmed regardless: Men choose blondes, women choose money and the rest get kicked...
Harvard academics, professors and students have cited many faults in Huntington’s claims. From his assertion that the Mexico-America border is easily crossed to his claims that the Spanish language and bilingualism inhibit integration, Huntington elaborates on archaic and racist notions of immigration. A simple look at the border between the United States and Mexico will show that the border has been highly militarized. Hundreds of people have died trying to cross into the United States, killed by border patrol officers and the extremely dangerous terrain and weather characteristic of the borderlands. Huntington has written that immigrants...
...true: the four-hour spectacle of song and dance, mantra and martial arts is based upon a classic of Indonesian literature, an epic poem almost unknown outside the archipelago until now. The poem, also called I La Galigo, survives in thousands of fragmentary manuscripts and was written in an archaic Indonesian language that maybe no more than 50 people today are able to understand. It runs to some 300,000 lines?roughly 20 times the length of Homer's Odyssey?making it one of the longest literary works in existence. The creation myth of the Bugis people of South Sulawesi...