Word: easternism
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Katharine E. S. Loncke ’08 is a social studies and women, gender and sexuality concentrator in Cabot House. Deena S. Shakir ’09 is a social studies and Near Eastern languages and civilizations concentrator in Leverett House. Thomas S. Wooten ’08 is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...
...directed by co-producer Margaret M. Wang ’09, explores the experience of Asians in predominantly white, Western settings.“You see a lot of Asian-inspired clothes from Western designers,” Wang says. “There are lots of parallels between Eastern and Western cultures, and it’s interesting how people combine them.” “By looking at common elements in clothing, we’re trying to find common elements in culture,” Lee says. “It’s like...
...long enough to accommodate jumbo jets, but for now it will be used mainly for U.S. military flights. That's because only one Western carrier-Austrian Airlines-is brave enough to land there. Other flights are run by off-brand charters with names such as Flying Carpet and Middle Eastern carriers such as Iraqi Airways. And even those are unreliable. Many of the officials at Iraqi Airways are former Baathists who try to gum up the works. Flights from Turkey often get canceled when there's a public dispute between Kurdish and Turkish politicians. And all flights...
...Western thinking, the world is linear; you can chop it up and analyze it, and we can all work on our little part of the project independently until it's solved. The classically Eastern mind, according to Nisbett, sees things differently: the world isn't a length of rope but a vast, closed chain, incomprehensibly complex and ever changing. When you look at life from this second perspective, some unlikely connections reveal themselves. You're forced to retreat from the den of libertarianism and sniff the wind, to wake up when someone in Khartoum or Mogadishu twitches in his sleep...
...fifth day of the road trip, the van leaves Gyseni, a former colonial lake resort in the western province of Rwanda, and takes a bumpy and circuitous route to Kibuye, on the eastern shore of Lake Kivu. The driver constantly sounds his horn or drives frighteningly close to people to scare them off the road. The landscape outside is breathtaking: lush green hills, banana plantations and in the distance, the Virunga volcanoes, home of the famous Rwandan mountain gorillas...