Word: countrymen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King Simeon II of Bulgaria, 38, who considers his job that of "keeping the Bulgarian spirit alive"-notably in the U.S., where there are 50,000 of his fellow-countrymen. He is married to a Spanish aristocrat and lives in Madrid with their four sons and a daughter...
Died. Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, 88, Britain's most celebrated and controversial military leader during World War II, who in 1942 led his countrymen to their initial victory over the Germans at El Alamein in northern Egypt; at Isington Mill, Hampshire (see THE WORLD...
Asian student who refused to be identified by name or sex or year in school painted a picture of "their" country as very much like the United States, despite that more than half of "their" countrymen are undernourished, illiterate and live as subsistence farmers. The student said that life is not very different here, because "they" came from a city back home--and "they" said that "their" government is working hard to eliminate the country's problems (which "they" left undefined...
Understandably, the students I spoke to by and large feel distant from their impoverished countrymen. Poku-Appiah's three sisters all live in London, far from their native Kumasi, married to Ghanaians engaging in things like medicine and building contracting. Omar Rahman '79, from Dacca, Bangladesh, says: "I feel closer to people here than at home--but I'm not at home here either. I guess I'm somewhere in between. Rahman, whose mother is a biochemist with a Ph.D. from Yale and father holds an M.S. as an engineer from lowa, grew up speaking four languages (Bengali, Hindi, Urdu...
...America. He says that ordinary people and the elites have more day-to-day encounters in India. "You don't have to go to a party to meet people in Delhi," he says; "the guys selling cigarettes are quite happy to talk." Contact with the great mass of his countrymen, he says, is what he misses most while he's here; and he sums this Indian virtue up in the negative, contrasting it with the U.S. and calling it "lack of impersonality." He is the only elite third world student who said to me, unqualifiedly, that "I very strongly identify...