Word: democraticizing
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No intelligent person wants America to be homogeneous; indeed, much of our strength lies in the fact that we are so diverse. But it's ludicrous to claim that learning the English language and about America's democratic government will make immigrants clones of white, middle-class men and women...
Likewise, learning about America's democratic government enables immigrants to participate in the electoral process. Such knowledge about their new home empowers them; it does not undermine their native cultures one bit.
Will having immigrants learn English eliminate racism? No, but neither will having them be fluent in just their native tongues. Immigrants' best chance at success lies not in clinging to the past but in looking toward the future. America, her values and democratic government, and her language are willing to...
Last Thursday a Republican Senator went before the cameras to denounce Democratic leader Tom Daschle's proposal for handling impeachment witnesses. Gleeful, the Senator crowed, "It is perhaps accurate for Senator Gramm and myself to describe the Daschle proposal as being Sex, Lies and No Videotape. Now we want the...
A few minutes into his Inaugural Address, on Jan. 20, 1989, George Bush--a Republican President often derided for his inattention to domestic problems--looked out at the crowd and declared, "My friends, we have work to do." The first task: helping "the homeless, lost and roaming." Ten years later...