Word: collectivistic
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...course, once a collectivist not always a collectivist. Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, a professor of globalization and education at New York University, has been following 400 families that immigrated to the U.S. from Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Many hailed from villages where the American culture of competition is alien, but once they got here, they changed fast...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of writer Ayn Rand. Her first—and best—novel, “The Fountainhead,” published in 1943, tells the story of an independent-minded architect, Howard Roark, who rebels against the collectivist ethos of New Deal America. The sex scenes between Roark and his on-again-off-again lover, journalist Dominique Francon, are so violent that Roark could probably be charged with rape today. And, post-9/11, readers may be less tolerant towards Roark, who has a disturbing propensity to blow up architecturally...
...demand at clubs all over the country, and singalong television shows teach youngsters old campfire numbers from the 1948 Independence War. The intifadeh "has pushed Israeli society back in history to its Zionist ideological phase," says Benny Morris, a leading post-Zionist historian. "People are moving backward to a collectivist view." The effect of the New Zionism isn't limited to social life. Because most Israelis are convinced that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will never stick to an acceptable peace agreement, right-wing parties are getting a boost in the polls. This shift to the right also colors...
...blackness: love of watermelon, fried foods and well-told stories that may not reside solely in the land of fact. Unconditional love for Stevie Wonder. Half-moons under my fingernails. Rhythm. A fondness for cities, for picking bones clean. A collectivist rather than colonialist view of the world. A behind of consequence. My father...
...wrong reasons for it and propose another model, which in turn proves equally unworkable. This is as true of nutty little proposals by discontented geniuses--like the idea of communalist, rural "pantisocracy" put forward by Shelley, Coleridge and others in their youth--as it is of paranoid, pseudo-collectivist systems that take over whole societies and make huge contributions to the sum of human misery, like Stalinism. We flawed animals can be somewhat improved, spottily and with difficulty; but we cannot be perfected, which is what the Utopian project, in its various forms, is all about...