Word: aryanism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Iran embodies both the essence of the Islamic complaint against the West and unique historical grievances of its own. By race (Aryan), language (Persian), religion (Shi'ite Muslim) and historical tradition (ancient Persia was conquered by Muslims in the 8th century), Iran is different from the rest of Middle Eastern Islam. It was never colonized, in the usual sense of the word, by the West. And yet the penetration of Western ideas was deeper in Iran than in some other parts of the Middle East and came to be seen in a considerably more sinister light...
...Nazis herded countless thousands of homosexuals into concentration camps. They were regarded as degenerates, polluting the purity of Aryan blood. That is the documentary origin of this gritty, powerful and compassionate drama...
...sociobiological inquiries. That is not only simplistic and mechanistic, it distorts the multivalent nature of any complex theory such as E.O. Wilson's. Would one say that the genocidal policies of the Marxist Pol Pot regime "follow logically" form the writings of Karl Marx? Would one say that the Aryan superiority doctrine of the Nazis "followed logically" from the Superman statements of Neitzsche? Alain de Benoist, one of the espousers of the French "New Right" belief in genetic superiority, is also violently anti--Christian; does that mean that E.O. Wilson is anti-Christian as well? But all this could follow...
...race of dark-eyed, olive-skinned traders who began migrating out of India a millennium ago and still speak their own language (a guttural tongue with Aryan roots called Romany), gypsies have been vilified wherever they have gone. Of the 10 million who now live outside India, roughly half have settled in Eastern Europe, while a million are in Western Europe and 500,000 are in the U.S. But only 50,000 gypsies are in West Germany. It is the home, they believe, of the worst prejudice against them...
...MAJOR THEME comes out early. Sex. Or love if you like. Patti (Patty Woo), facing the classic problem of all hopeless romantics in "Used To," the third song of the evening, gives up her search for an Aryan demigod when swept away by a sweet schlep. Though we never found out just how long it was before her affair crashed, Woo's lovelorn overachiever presages the cast's comprehensive review of their dealings with boys from a casual come hither to determined attempts to do without...