Word: imperialistic
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Anti-American rhetoric by Islamic extremists in Tehran is not to be taken seriously. "It is for domestic, anti-imperialist consumption that the so- called radicals shout warmongering slogans against the Americans," says an Iranian political scientist living in Paris. "Even the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are in no mood to join the hostilities...
...from the Vietnam era. Back then, anti-war activists saw American soldiers as baby-killing monsters, armed with napalm and eager to ravage the Vietnamese people My Lai-style. In the eyes of the anti-war movement, the soldiers bore as much guilt for the prosecution of an immoral imperialist war as the president, the Pentagon and the rest of the Establishment. Returning soldiers were shamed and spit upon...
...Says Yuri Shchekochikhin, a reform member of parliament: "He should understand that they have already made a dictator out of him. He has refused to put down the military-industrial complex, and his popularity has fallen throughout the country. He should make his final choice. Either he is an imperialist or a democrat...
...policies of England, the United States and other world powers during the imperialist era often produced the economic and political turmoil in non-Western cultures that devalued their art. As a result, Western collectors could buy art object cheaply, or simply take them. At the same time, these collectors could argue that they were performing a moral service by "preserving" art from destruction...
There are no clear and easy answers in this debate. But a thorough investigation of the conditions surrounding the acquisition of museum collections is required as we emerge from the imperialist age into a new era of multicultural harmony and co-existence...