Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mazda's marketing managers say they have no plans to exploit the 626's new citizenship status. Still, being a naturalized American with Japanese parents can have its complications. After the recent ridicule of U.S. workers by Japanese politicians, Mazda's Flat Rock president, Masahiro Uchida, sent around a note of apology to his American workers. "It was embarrassing," he said last week. "It was not helpful...
...children of a Canadian father and a French mother, they hold dual citizenship. Paul, 30, was born in the Lorraine region of France, while Isabelle, 28, was born near Montreal. For years, Canada judged their skating second rate. After being relegated by the Canadians to an alternate berth for the world championships in 1985, the Duchesnays accepted an offer to compete for France, then moved to the German town of Oberstdorf to train with Martin Skotnicky. Despite their mixed ancestry -- plus a German home, a Slovak coach and an English choreographer -- their loyalties are undivided. "If it were...
...request has sparked a broader debate of the issue of citizenship and professorial obligations to the University...
...pervasive claim to victimhood tops off America's long-cherished culture of therapeutics. Thus we create a juvenile culture of complaint in / which Big Daddy is always to blame and the expansion of rights goes on without the other half of citizenship: attachment to duties and obligations. We are seeing a public recoil from formal politics, from the active, reasoned exercise of citizenship. It comes because we don't trust anyone. It is part of the cafard the '80s induced: Wall Street robbery, the savings and loan scandal, the wholesale plunder of the economy, an orgy released by Reaganomics that...
...hostility to immigrants, especially dark-skinned Muslim Arabs and Africans. Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac has called for a moratorium on allowing immigrants' families to join them and suggested denying welfare payments to residents of non-French ancestry; former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing has hinted at refusing automatic citizenship to French-born children of immigrants. All three ideas came straight out of Le Pen's platform. Even Socialist President Francois Mitterrand once declared that France had passed "the threshold of tolerance" in absorbing African and Arab immigrants...