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...Consider the story "Addiction," about a gay Singaporean student in London named Alistair. Parts of it are smartly observed, but structurally Poon draws too crude a contrast between London and Singapore to power her plot of a young man's journey of self-discovery. Alistair's parents are caricatured embodiments of lowbrow, materialist Asia. Because she uses the abbreviation k to denote a thousand, we are asked to believe that Alistair's mother has "a barbaric attitude towards money - reducing something vast to a small, inconsequential syllable." His father makes bawdy comments about the breasts of "these Western women" while...
British imperialists set the migrants up to be a bulwark between themselves and "barbaric" blacks. Class and race divisions were institutionalized and internalized. Asian settlers saw indigenous Africans as Calibans - as crude, lascivious and untrustworthy as The Tempest's half-man, half-demon. Africans, in turn, detested the brown interlopers. To them, Asian merchants were like Shylock: usurers and exploiters...
...urban electorate. While the Civic Platform drew most of its support from what pollsters now refer to as Poland A - urban, educated, younger voters - the rural, older, more devout voters who make up Poland B favored Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice Party (PIS) and other parties. In crude terms, the first group includes the winners of Poland's economic transition; the second group, the losers...
...Were this sentimentalism not so pathetic, so crude, there would almost be something poetic, something tragically heroic in it. Almost...
...inspiration to work together to a build a world of greater peace. No greater monument to the sacrifice of our peers is possible than a world in which we shall not feel compelled to send our own children to kill others’ children for the sake of crude greed and old lies...