Word: constructed
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Eventually, Boym says, remembrance and nostalgia become experiences in themselves. Like conspiracies, they construct a self-inflicted reality and give biography a context. “The individual connection to history is the most important...
...least one who is still getting her bearings. I had never heard the terms South Asian or brown before college. I still haven’t brought myself to use the latter in regular speech, maybe because in grade school race had predominantly been presented as a negative social construct. Not knowing that I had a color provided a comfortable layer of separation from these discussions. And my perhaps irrational fears of being a stereotype led me to wildly equivocate every time my pre-med status becomes apparent. Another Indian doctor? No, not me — that...
...tearful realization that the generations are not so different after all. They are convenient endings, and I look forward to the day when a movie can simply have Indian-American characters without having to explain that choice. But I appreciate such forms of expression as another way to construct my own cultural identity...
...They’re also trained in things like handling a student who comes in here interested in astronomy, physics and math, but who has a secondary interest in VES. That freshman adviser should be trained enough to say, ‘Let’s construct a program so that you can explore some of the science but still have that VES,’” says Tucci, who has served as a first-year adviser...
...Xavier McDaniel, good people of Harvard University, would undoubtedly choose to construct a full-sized SlamBall court with that money...