Word: hyphenate
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...making the dangerous argument that "We are not Americans with a hyphen; rather, we are all Americans," this viewpoint ignores what we hold to be the very foundation of American ideals: the celebration of individuals from different backgrounds who have all had an impact on shaping of our common history...
...opinion, there are three main steps needed to correct this misunderstanding and misapplication of true multiculturalism. First, we must recognize and accept that there is an American culture which is more than the sum of its ethnic components. We are not Americans with a hyphen rather, we are all Americans...
Such pain is evidence that America has yet to harvest the full rewards of its founding principles. The land of immigrants may be giving way to a land of hyphenations, but the hyphen still divides even as it compounds. Those who intermarry have perhaps the strongest sense of what it will take to return America to an unhyphenated whole. "It's American culture that we all share," says Mills. "We should capitalize on that." Perhaps her two Native American- black-white-Hungarian-French-Catholic-Jewish-American children will lead...
Culture in America is likely to be spelled these days with a hyphen. Watch it on TV. There's Cuban-American singing star Gloria Estefan in a music video on MTV Latino. See it at the cinema. The film version of The Joy Luck Club, based on the popular novel by Chinese-American author Amy Tan, could be playing nearby. Theater? There's the modern-dance show Griot New York, directed by Jamaican-American choreographer Garth Fagan. Poetry? Buy a book of verse by St. Lucian-born, Nobel-prizewinning poet Derek Walcott, who teaches at Boston University. Painting? New York...
...celebration was a long time coming. To be an immigrant artist is to be a hyphen away from one's roots, and still a thousand miles away. But it is often that link to a foreign land -- another way of seeing things -- that allows such artists to contribute ideas to American culture that are fresh and new. That slim hyphen, that thin line that joins individual Americans to their past, is also what connects all America to its future...