Word: isolationism
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The moves toward a market economy have been hobbled by Vietnam's economic and diplomatic isolation. Hanoi and Washington have long disagreed on how to restore relations, and the U.S. strengthened a 1975 trade embargo following Vietnam's 1978 invasion of Cambodia. Other industrial countries, including Japan, are waiting for...
Instead, we train a small core of people to deal with outsiders and leave ordinary Americans to themselves. Our public education system promotes this isolation by only teaching languages to academically advanced children. The rest of the students' education is structured so that they won't have to communicate with...
"It is a modern paradox that children are far more likely to have living grandparents but much less likely to know them well," says Fran Pratt, who directs the Center for Understanding Aging at Framingham State College in Massachusetts. Psychologists point out that old people and youngsters, whether related or...
We have offered plenty of rational arguments for divestment: the vast majority of South African opposition leaders call for the international isolation of South Africa. Many of them, including Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, specifically call upon Harvard to divest. Isolating South Africa has worked to effect positive change. Harvard's...
I was well aware of the reputation that my home state--the only state wholly contained within Appalachia--has among the rest of the United States. West Virginia is beset by chronically high poverty and unemployment, corrupt and incompetent local political machines, geographic isolation and a long history of exploitation...