Word: communalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than their elders whose concerns were in general, more budgetary." In the process people's values gradually shifted from those generally associated with religion and family to self-expression through hedonistic consumption. These developments inspired the eclipse of a theocentric worldview, and a devaluation of qualities such as a communal solidarity, self-sacrifice and commitment to the future through marriage and nurturing of children...
Such a binge of communal gambling was certain to provoke sober afterthoughts, and did. Said Monsignor Joseph A. Dunne of New York City, president of the National Council on Compulsive Gambling: "The state approved drinking but it doesn't promote it. Yet the state is promoting, advocating and pushing risk-taking behavior like gambling." Some critics complained that in using games of chance to raise revenue, states mainly exploit poorer people, whose tight financial straits tempt them to give in to dreams of hitting it big. Said Sociologist Eric Hirsch of Columbia University: "It's the American dream...
...Perking up, Massasoit is reported to have asked for some "good English pottage," a soup he had already sampled, thus becoming, probably, the first American to order foreign food. Since then, immigrants have been arriving like guests at a covered-dish supper, contributing their specialties to the new communal table. The result is the world's most diversified menu, one that includes such typical "American" foods as hot dogs with sauerkraut from Germany, Italian pizza and the apple pie of Elizabethan England...
When he arrived, he wanted "to find out why China has lagged behind technologically," he says, adding he has discovered only some pieces of the answer. Huang says he has learned that "cultural factors, and the emphasis on a communal lifestyle, are inherently hostile elements to good organization." China's new open-mindedness toward the West, he adds, hopefully will dispel its "threatening self-assumed superiority and self-indulgent nostalgia...
...bodyguards, both Sikhs, assassinated Prime Minister Indira Gandhi as she was walking from her residence to a television interview in her garden. Now, declared Home Minister S.B. Chavan, "a coordinated, well- planned operation has been launched to terrorize, to create fear in the minds of citizens and to disrupt communal peace and harmony." The government, he said, would take "the sternest measures" to restore peace and order...