Word: coconut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dogmatists on the left use terms like "self-hating Jew," "Oreo," "banana," "coconut," "racist" and other labels designed to put people in line, to make them conform to established expectations. This damages democracy, and wreaks havoc on the idea of liberal education...
...island's sole industry is the production of copra, dried coconut meat that is collected by a freighter once a month and taken to the main island to be pressed for its oil. All over the island copra is spread on racks to dry in the sun, producing an inescapable smell of warm suntan...
Mother-driven families (none of the "fathers said more than a few sentences a day to their children") live lives as similar as their houses. They all bake the same coconut cake, hang out laundry on the same day of the week and order dinette sets with laminated tops that look like wood but sponge off easily. Loving her children is not enough. To fit in, Nora would have to keep them up, along with the lawn, live a life as ordered as the ones around her and, most important, get a husband...
That Aquino has at least partially delivered on her "no favors" pledge is generally overlooked. She has cut into Marcos' "crony capitalism" by dismantling sugar and coconut monopolies and beginning -- however clumsily -- to privatize government-owned companies that produce everything from cars to cement. But she has been unable to dispel some well-entrenched assumptions. "For any average Filipino, if he gets a good job, his family would expect to benefit," explains Jose Luis Alcuaz, a longtime ally of Aquino's assassinated husband Benigno...