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...best essays in this book demonstrate Rodriguez's ability to play with these contradictions, to arrive at startling truths about American society. He insists that Americans must realize their culture is by nature a mixture. He contrasts the American obsession with racial and cultural purity to Mexico's ethic of mestizaje (cultural and racial mixing). He insists that the obsession has been pointless: the "mexicanization" of the U.S.A. has in many ways already occured. Quite literally, Rodriguez suggests that the food we put into our mouths, the music we listen to and the people we sleep with have the ability...
...values" campaign engineered by ideologues like Vice President Dan Quayle's chief of staff William Kristol. It wasn't family values as such that made people uncomfortable; it was the politization of family values, their enlistment in a rhetoric of intolerance, from which we recoiled. Maybe that "kinder, gentler" ethic that Bush named in 1988 was bigger than he or his speechwriters ever realized...
...said he hopes Americans will abandon the ethic "that would require everyone to put on a uniform no matter what, as a test of his manhood...
...rest of life, which is threatened with irreversible extinction, can enhance and expand human feeling and involvement and welfare in ways that people haven't yet understood but are there and can be explained. That is really, I think, a large part of the basis for a coming environmental ethic" E.O. Wilson, 16 October...
Murphy admits that though the country clearly needs more such teachers, it will have trouble finding them without a national ethic that includes "treating teachers with more respect...