Word: familiarities
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Celebrating Segregation? After reading Laura Fitzpatrick's article on Savannah State University, I was struck by a familiar pattern [Feb. 23]. When African Americans talk about African-American segregated institutions, it's with a degree of pride. Yet when there is a segregated all-white institution, there is usually an undertone of racism. Since separate but equal is not to be tolerated, I am confused. Which is pride, and which is racism? Stephen E. Johnson, Madison...
...Unfortunately, this storyline has become all too familiar...
...mimic the sounds of a kora and slip into high-stepping township jive, he's most at home using African styles to flavor rock melodies. "Ce N'Est Pas Bon" is stomping garage rock, while "Bozos" could be a particularly happy Neil Young song. Everything has a familiar pop structure, but there's just enough African instrumentation to provide a thrilling sense of dislocation...
...People lined the streets of Accra: shopping for themselves, rushing to catch tro-tros, and selling curios to the obrunis (Westerners) studying or working in Ghana. As I maneuvered through the crowds, I noticed that I was being greeted with a familiar name: “Obama! Obama!” Yes—that Obama. My engagement in the U.S. presidential election was not lessened because I was in Ghana this summer, but it was actually heightened by the opportunity to view this watershed historical moment through a Ghanaian lens. Being an American in Ghana meant an inevitable association...
...which it built both its postwar prosperity and social stability is broken. Japan's spectacularly successful export-oriented industries were responsible for creating the world's second largest economy, and their lifetime-employment policies, with generous benefits, obviated the need for a comprehensive social safety net of the sort familiar to Western Europeans. Then came the bubble. After financial markets were liberalized in the 1980s, Japan went on a debt-fueled binge that made modern Americans look as thrifty as Amish farmers. The stock market soared into the stratosphere, and property prices went so haywire that it was common...