Word: citizenship
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BEFORE economic opportunities in the U.S. become even further bifurcated between those who can afford college and those who cannot, Congress should fundamentally restructure how college education is paid for. Attending college, like attending elementary school, should be made a right of citizenship...
...descendants of Korean laborers who came to the islands when Japan's 1910-1945 colonization of the peninsula took away their jobs and land. More than four decades later, there is little discernible difference between the two peoples, but Koreans still face discrimination. Those who retain their Korean citizenship are ineligible for most civil service jobs, such as public school teaching, and they cannot vote...
Korean residents can apply for Japanese citizenship but often do not, charging that the subtle prejudices against them do not disappear. "Every day I face invisible barriers," says Hong Dae Pyo, a language-school director who contends that he was fired from a salesman's position when his employer discovered he was Korean. "If Japan accepted me as Hong Dae Pyo, I would naturalize tomorrow...
...that, of course, is to violate current League of Women Voters standards of good citizenship. Let others struggle valiantly to raise the political awareness of all citizens. Let them rage against the tides of indifference. They will fail, and when they do, relax. Remember that indifference to politics leaves all the more room for the things that really count: science, art, religion, family and play...
...think I would. I'm not going to renounce my American citizenship...