Word: culturese
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Maria Garcia is as hip as any 11-year-old in Seoul, Seattle or Sydney. Here at the Lomada School on La Gomera, the second-smallest of Spain's seven Canary Islands, she has a cell phone tucked into the waistband of her trousers, which leave a fashionably bare patch...
Kerry offers his bio as the story of a devoted family in which the children, by virtue of their father's foreign-service career, got to explore other cultures and acquire early on a commitment to serious public service. His detractors tell the story of an effete snob who "looks...
Having a mother who grew up in Europe and a father who worked to reshape it, going to school abroad and learning French, Italian and German meant that Kerry developed a comfort with other cultures and other points of view that abides to this day. He's an affirmed multilateralist...
But the clash of cultures has been more of a slow series of culture shocks (both pleasant and unpleasant), and where a lapse in language comprehension would make things difficult, honest, if surprising, efforts at mutual understanding have compensated. After all, as I played peek-a-boo with the giggling...
Annan described a “triple crisis” that “has challenged the U.N. as a system and the U.S. as a global leader,” namely the crises of collective security, damaged international solidarity and intolerance among different cultures and faiths.