Word: egalitarian
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With the rise of affordable digital cameras, these days anyone can click a shutter and produce a technically competent picture. So it's appropriate that the first-ever Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF), set to take place from Oct. 8 to 31, took an egalitarian approach to submissions. "Our curators went through a blind selection process, and to lower barriers to entry, we [decided to] undertake the printing of all the works," says Gwen Lee, the festival's director and founder of the 2902 photography gallery. It's a generous move by the not-for-profit festival, given that...
...idealized memory of a more egalitarian economy seems to guide Jutta, 50, another regular at Zur Firma. Asked what she tells her daughter, now 22, about the former country in which she was born, Jutta answers: "I talk about social behavior. I tell her that people were there for each other without expecting something in return." Most of the GDR's approximately 200,000 former political prisoners are unlikely to agree...
...Class War Michael Kinsley is right to condemn affirmative action based on social class [Aug. 25]. This proposal is a logical extension of the compassionate but misguided urge to reward human inadequacy and punish achievement so as to achieve an egalitarian leveling of success in life. From childhood we learn to try to behave in ways that will be rewarded and avoid behaviors that will be punished. Class-based affirmative action would perversely ensure that this value system was turned upside down. American greatness was built by honoring the natural order, which rewards competence and punishes failure. Reversing this order...
...Chinese were obsessed with medals. At the Closing Ceremony, as the athletes flowed into the stadium, the medalists were ushered in first. It was a situation at odds with the egalitarian, celebratory mood but very much in line with a results-obsessed nation whose mission was to impress and, by impressing, to dominate. The athletes, unused to being distinguished from their teammates, appeared to be flummoxed, unsure of how to occupy the vast amount of space in the center of the Bird's Nest. Even during the pop interludes, the athletic participants were subdued, choosing to stand or sit rather...
...viewers across the Arab world hooked--and their clerics seething. Religious leaders from Bahrain to the West Bank have condemned Noor for being "replete with wickedness, evil and moral collapse," in the words of Saudi Arabia's Grand Mufti. The show has drawn ire over its portrayal of egalitarian marriage--the heroine's husband supports her career in fashion--and characters who drink and date. Despite the criticism, 3 million to 4 million people in Saudi Arabia are tuning in daily...