Word: colonialistic
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True, France has some practical interests in Quebec. At a time when De Gaulle is lavishing abuse on Britain, the U.S. and other "colonialist" powers, he himself has been diligently trying to set up-something akin to a colony in Quebec. In the past seven years, French investment in Quebec has doubled to more than $100 million, and De Gaulle's government organizes regular exchange programs for students, teachers and technicians. But economic interests were far overshadowed by De Gaulle's desire to extol a vague kind of French international glory...
...problem is a relatively modern one. Whether out of innate good sense or colonialist snobbery, whites up through the 19th century shunned the tropical sun, carried parasols, wore big-brimmed hats and left exposure to nonwhites, whom nature has kindly endowed with pigment protection. A white man's tan, in fact, is the result of a dark pigment that rises from mid-level layers of the skin in an effort to guard against further assaults by the sun. But such tanning was not thought of in the U.S. as a sign of health until the 1920s, after sunlight...
...meeting of African political leaders, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah chided the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny for being "pro-colonialist." Retorted Houphouet-Boigny: "We will meet again in ten years, and then we will see which of us has done better for his country." They did not need to wait a decade to know the answer. Today, Nkrumah is in exile, Ghana is practically bankrupt-and the Ivory Coast is Black Africa's most flourishing young country...
...Catholic canticles based on plain chant, along with hymns borrowed from Anglican, Lutheran and Presbyterian songbooks. In response to popular demand, in went Billy Graham's longtime favorite, How Great Thou Art. Out, at the request of Negro Methodist bishops, went Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, with its colonialist reference to "lesser breeds without the law"; the hymnal includes five Negro spirituals, carefully edited to exclude dialect wording. Reflecting the musical cross-fertilization inspired by church missionaries, there is one hymn (The Righteous Ones) by a Thai convert to Christianity, another based on an African chant...
...high as $3.50 per gallon). Last week negotiations were under way for yet another airlift-this one from Mozambique, whose Portuguese rulers may sympathize with Prime Minister Ian Smith and his white rebels but who long ago learned to cover their bets. Said an official of the last major colonialist power in Africa: "Portugal will pursue her policy of cooperation with her African neighbors as long as those countries refrain from adopting a policy hostile to Portugal...