Word: imperialistic
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Britain's love affair with the Indian subcontinent, in books, films and mini- series, is a quaint disease, a melancholy for everything exotic the empire has owned and lost. To a romantic imperialist brooding over his sherry, the decorous Indians, with their subversive good manners, impressive intellectual tradition and caste system as rigid as their overlords', seemed perfect Asian ambassadors for all things English. The years have lent Indians and Pakistanis of old an ironic nobility; about them a Brit can feel at once guilty and nostalgic. Unless, of course, one has to deal with their sons and daughters...
...Saudi scheme has already created a rift between the poor producers and the rich ones. In Iran, Ayatullah Khomeini's government last week condemned the Saudi plan as "an imperialist conspiracy." Meanwhile, the oil ministers of Mexico and Venezuela teamed up for a road show to promote peace among the petropowers. One stop was Egypt, which has reportedly taken a step toward cooperation by quietly lowering its production...
...Davis, professor of Black Philosophy at San Francisco State University, expresses wariness of "the white women's burden," as she labels the chauvinistic tendencies of Western feminists. Caught up in the question of gender, they can be colorblind to the crucial ethnic and cultural differences among women, succumbing to imperialist logic in the domain of female sexuality...
...little hungry, I set off for OCS-OCL to look for a summer job. Maybe someone would hire a devious turncoat. I couldn't help chuckling at a poster touting Sylvester Stallone as Hasty Pudding Theatricals' Man of the Year. This time, the Beast grabbed me by the throat. "Imperialist dog," it growled, "Rambo-loving fascist! I bet you step on Third World nations before breakfast...
...Harvard. Where else could my political affiliations be trumpeted to the world by the courses I choose and the movies I watch? Where else could I be a political schemer, an imperialist dog, and a chain-smoking socialist before I even finished lunch? Certainly not at Dartmouth...