Word: capitalist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During a tumultuous time in Russian history, in which many Russians still wish to return to a communist system, sewing the seeds of capitalism at seven years-old seems to be the only solution for a country with an agenda to remain capitalist. If Russia is to transform itself into a functioning market economy, its children will have to understand the ethos of one--complete to win. According to the Times article, economics has now become one of the foremost majors in Russian universities, while 10 years ago studying economic theory there was an offense punishable by imprisonment...
...have to start at age seven? American children don't need to be taught about profit and loss in the first grade because capitalism is virtually synonymous with the United States. We are capitalists in the womb, as it were, because everyone and everything around us is the product of a purely capitalist society. What American five-year-old needs to be taught that the one with the most toys wins...
Most Americans who never learn the basic elements of economic theory offered by Professor Martin Feldstein and his Ec 10 staff can thrive in our capitalist economy. These fundamentals--while helpful for a general understanding of the motivations of certain consumer and firm behaviors and peeking into the bigger picture of inflation, unemployment and growth--are not necessary in order to succeed in America's economy because the basic basics might as well be incorporated into the applesauce...
...communist Reds in the Civil War were portrayed as wine-swilling fat cats not dissimilar in manner to the depictions of their red-white-and-blue-hatted American counterparts on the congruent poster. Another work in the room focuses on conspiritorial links within the League of Nations between the capitalist nations to destroy the Soviet "threat." Yet a more extreme print reworks a Russian fairy tale about evil people (fat capitalists) attempting to uproot a turnip (a national symbol), whereupon the turnip rises to the occassion and blows the bastards out of the country...
...dreaded that particular question partly because I hadn't been able to think of a convincing answer beyond pointing out that Random House had paid a lot more than the Star and in a capitalist society a large sum of money brings a certain amount of respect, even if it is spent on a book that turns out to be a turkey...