Word: culturese
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Perhaps, but Marie-Claude Vitali, a long-time resident of northern Blois who has worked for nearly 30 years to help locals help themselves, says the mutual accusation and disdain dividing French society from the banlieues must give way to common cause if future violence is to be avoided. "Thirty...
"The Enemy Within," on radical young European Muslims who are turning to religious militancy [Oct. 31], quoted the extremist Sayful Islam: "Even if my own family were killed by a jihadi's bomb, I would say it's the will of Allah." That statement reveals in unambiguous terms the mind...
Taken together, the two screenplays show that the battle of Iwo Jima--and by implication, the whole war in the Pacific--was not just a clash of arms but a clash of cultures. The Japanese officer class, imbued with the quasi-religious fervor of their Bushido code, believed that surrender...
“In France, there is an assumption that immigrants should retain their previous cultures and not become part of an integrated French culture,” he said. “In the United States, immigrants are fundamentally and consciously turned into Americans as part of the citizenship...
Pundits pretending otherwise have conveniently short memories of Islamist evolution, or woefully poor understanding of France's urban morass. The decrepit housing projects now hosting pitched battles are case studies in progressive French good intentions gone awry. Initially constructed in the 1960s to replace the squalid Hoovervilles once populated by...