Word: europeanization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...European decides he must talk to the African," said Achebe, "he must find one unspoiled by modern civilization, which tends to put inconvenient words in his mouth...
...said that although Europe and Africa have interacted for centuries, "the European definition of partnership successfully evades the notion of equality, and equality is the one thing Europe is reluctant to concede for others, especially Africans...
Achebe said Western conceptions of Africa were often formed by "experts and foreign correspondents," mostly white writers and missionaries who wrote of their own prejudices without regard for the Black perspective. "European reliance on their own experts would not worry us if it didn't exclude the African experience itself," he said...
...more than 50%, a book would have been pointless. Who needs How I Made $9,000 by Incredibly Shrewd Investing? Though Rothchild may not have realized this at the outset, only calamity could produce a level of melodrama salable in bookstores. (He is not a member of the illustrious European banking family, which spells its name Rothschild and usually surmounts calamity...
...Canadian hockey teams, with their scattering of N.H.L. pros, college players and European-league veterans, are scarcely amateur in the classic sense. But in Olympic play, even these hodgepodge squads are dinosaurs on ice. After the Americans' seventh-place finish and the Canadians' drubbing, 5-0, by the gold-bound Soviets, North American hockey officials were dismayed. Sighs Father David Bauer, patriarch of Team Canada: "If the American defense had only been better, it would have done so much for amateur hockey...