Word: condescendingness
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Yet the rise of secularism isn’t remarked upon in the mainstream media, which prefers mega-church scaremongering (evangelicals are coming to get you!), or condescending articles on virginity balls and the like. So why does the growing secular minority feel besieged by the shrinking religious majority?
Efficient, capable and well paid, Haruko (played by the 33-year-old actress Ryoko Shinohara) is a contract worker who has been dispatched to a struggling Tokyo food-manufacturing company. Efficient and deadly capable, she is totally lacking in interpersonal skills - which in Japan, even more than in other countries...
While the shift has helped Japanese corporations post record profits, others worry about a generation of workers mired in a low-wage temp ghetto-34% of male and 55% of female part-timers make less than $11,000 a year. All of this feeds the success of Haken, which satirizes...
In the midst of the turmoil, one White House official announced last week that he was making a clean getaway. After more than 2,000 briefings over five years, during which he deftly handled the White House press corps with a Mississippi mixture of down-home humor, cool confrontation and...
During an economic summit in Beijing last month, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and the rest of a high-powered American delegation, including Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, had to suffer through a condescending lecture, replete with PowerPoint presentation, from China's Vice Premier Wu Yi. One of the...