Word: citizenships
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favorite topic of conversation among Anglos in Miami revolves around whether the government should print driver's license tests, ballots, and even U.S. citizenship tests in both English and Spanish. Jewish residents, who had been among the most forward in welcoming the Cubans in 1961, point out with an edge in their voices that nobody printed the ballots in Yiddish for their ancestors when they came to America. The Jews in South Florida cast about 20 per cent of the area's votes, and there is widespread hostility toward the Cubans from this powerful group. That especially startles the Latins...
...just wrote an editorial last week on how to solve the world's problems by secretly substituting American athletes for the hostages in Iran. Since the captives qualify for citizenship now, the athletes could compete in the Olympics and a small nation like Iran would win as many medals as the U.S.S.R. Humiliated, the Russians would pull out of Afghanistan believing that all Third World nations were just as strong," I stated, pausing only to shift my body so my ear lobes would turn out just right...
...scholars of considerable learning. Public school teachers were essential to what was regarded as the proud advance of U.S. education. By 1930, 30% of American 17-year-olds were graduating from high school, and by the mid-1960s, graduates totaled 70%. The American public school was hailed for teaching citizenship and common sense to rich and poor, immigrant and native-born children, and for giving them a common democratic experience. "The public school was the true melting pot," William O. Douglas once wrote, "and the public school teacher was the leading architect of the new America that was being fashioned...
...country's Communist rulers can be proud of some achievements in the defeated South. They created jobs for a million people who were left unemployed at the end of the war. Thousands of prostitutes and drug addicts have been reformed. The public school enrollment has doubled. Finally, full citizenship has been restored to 400,000 of the soldiers who were once loyal to Nguyen Van Thieu...
...TIME of increasing discussion of women's and Third World people's oppression, there still remains enormous ignorance about the second-class citizenship of gay and lesbian people. This segment of the population, which includes members of every race, religion, and social class, is subject to legal restrictions on employment in 50 states, and on sexual activity in 29. Unwritten but culturally approved discrimination, contempt, and fear are barriers which gays and lesbians, whether open or closeted, must encounter every day. For the numerous gay students at Harvard and Radcliffe, these obstacles help to create a hostile environment for open...