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...rely on pseudosciences like phrenology and eugenics, instead using genetics and evolutionary theory to argue that “there’s no evidence that shows a relation between physiology and mental or moral behavior.” Rather, he argued, “race is a social construct...
...were incorrect, either because judges misunderstood the law or disregarded it. Foreign bankers and investors often have trouble enforcing contracts in Indonesian courts. In one case, a court last year nullified a $180 million loan made by a syndicate of foreign lenders to property developer Danareksa Jakarta International to construct the Jakarta Stock Exchange building, saying the loan circumvented Indonesian borrowing laws and therefore need not be repaid. The creditors are appealing, but one, U.S. investment firm Lone Star, is so fed up that it has vowed not to pursue new business in Indonesia. "Indonesia is never really going...
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...