Word: citizens
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...victory. What is it, after all, that most aggravates Democrats about President Bush? That he campaigned as a centrist but led from the right; he lost the popular vote but governed as though he had won in a landslide. And why shouldn't he? In iPod America, every citizen - bolstered by his self-created echo chamber - is a landslide victor in his own head...
...beatific smile says his role is not to shape public opinion but to follow it. "I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat," he said in an interview with TIME last week. "I accept that when an overwhelming majority of citizens says something, they are right." Zapatero calls this "citizen's socialism;" the opposition calls it rank populism. Either way it's a far cry from the stubborn conservatism of José María Aznar, the man he replaced five months ago. Aznar brought Spain into the U.S.-led Iraq coalition...
...essence of American democracy: every U.S. citizen over 18, except for prisoners and, in some states, ex-cons, can register to vote for the next President. But while many Americans don't take the obligation seriously - only about 70% even bother to register and just half of those eligible voted in the 2000 election - the U.S. continues to exclude a vast pool of important constituents who would, if given the chance, treat voting like the sacred duty it is. These people are affected every day by the decisions made in the White House. They deserve a say in the electoral...
...there you go: Concentrating in film studies is an ideal way of becoming a citizen of the world because you never risk forgetting that there are important barriers to your achievement of that citizenship. There is no easy cosmopolitanism. Film studies allows you to discover precisely what the barriers are and exactly how they can be overcome. It challenges you to explore both what happens when the barriers fall away (the HFA’s upcoming visit by Tsai Ming-liang, for example) and what forms of greatness are possible because of them (in, say, the best Hollywood Westerns...
This is a decent (B/B+) reason to concentrate in film studies regardless of whether you plan a career in film or film studies. But it may ultimately be a better reason for “the world” than for you, the citizen, and it may leave out the transformative experiences that drove your educational choices. In any case, it is not the way I would choose a concentration at Harvard...