Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place for every person in their country?but manifestly not for foreigners, who are known as gaijin (literally, outside people) and who are discouraged from seeking citizenship or marrying Japanese. The concept of a slot for everyone is best reflected in industry's paternalism. Keeping people in their jobs for life and maintaining a virtually full-employment economy are practices that do not seem to jibe with Japan's emphasis on efficiency. But the Japanese figure shrewdly that they are gaining in social stability whatever they may be losing in wasted salaries...
...always been considered essential to good citizenship and a sense of nationhood that Americans exalt the glories of their past. But the most unfortunate result of this approach has been a colossal superiority complex, the kind of my-country-right-or-wrong attitude that got us bogged down in Viet Nam. What revisionists are saying is: we are mature enough to look at ourselves honestly and learn from our mistakes; and an honest look at the American past reveals a panorama of violence, racism, imperialism, demagoguery and economic exploitation. FORREST G. WOOD Associate Professor of History Fresno State College Bakersfield...
...Vise. When Kenya and Uganda adopted policies of Africanization, the Asians were caught in a vise. Preference in business licensing and government jobs went to blacks, or in a few cases to Asians who had taken out Kenyan or Ugandan citizenship. Many Asians who had spent their entire lives in East Africa found, like Ranjan, that they could no longer get jobs. But neither could they emigrate to Britain...
...fastest-growing minority. * The first reservation opened in 1853, and the system still includes some 284 BIA-supervised enclaves. Indians are free to leave reservations whenever they wish, but those who do not live on them do not benefit from most Indian-aid programs. All Indians were granted full citizenship status...
...Cabinet will back two new laws. One will stipulate that government registrars can accept as Jewish nationals only persons who are converts to Judaism or who were born to Jewish mothers and have remained Jews (which is the traditional rule). The other law will grant automatic Israeli citizenship, for the first time, to all members of an immigrant family in which one spouse is Jewish...