Word: isolationism
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It really isn't a mystery why we might want to avoid having to forge social lives on our own, given that we are suddenly being thrust out of an environment where social life has come so easily. Complaining about Harvard's social scene has been a favorite pastime of...
Proulx once lived in Vermont and Newfoundland, and the works which made her famous--Heartsongs, Postcards and The Shipping News--are more than simply rooted in those places: it is Proulx's firm belief, a belief that sometimes seems to verge on determinism, that geography inexorably shapes human behavior. She...
Proulx once lived in Vermont and Newfoundland, and the works which made her famous--Heartsongs, Postcards and The Shipping News--are more than simply rooted in those places: it is Proulx's firm belief, a belief that sometimes seems to verge on determinism, that geography inexorably shapes human behavior. She...
Isolation from other countries allows a nation to foster beginning attempts at democracy.
"The freest nations in the world were those protected from invasion. The isolation of those nations made it possible for democracy to begin in those places," Wilson said.