Word: isolationist
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...that the rest of the world has an impact on our daily lives. Internationalization is more an attitude than a store of information about geographical facts or a language ability. Although knowledge of different cultures is intellectually stimulating, and our exposure to these societies helps us understand them, our isolationist attitude is too strong to be changed by these kinds of information alone...
...independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own." At the same time, our present forward position is the end product of an equally long thrust of American expansion, which was propelled by the fact that our stay- at-home sentiments were seldom consistent: isolationist politicians, however much they disliked Europe, typically favored brandishing big sticks in the Caribbean and the Pacific. Look for an intramural fight over these questions the next time our ally Israel finds itself embroiled in a Middle Eastern war. It won't be pretty...
Hwang, author of the award-winning M. Butterfly, said his early plays were influenced by the growing ethnic awareness on college campuses in the 1970s. But he said he shifted from the largely assimilationist model of F.O.B. to a more "nationalist-isolationist phase" in such works as Dance on the Railroad and Family Devotions, searching instead for a specifically Asian content and form...
...remained stoutly neutral, isolationist. Though most Americans favored the British, polls consistently showed that 75% to 80% strongly opposed U.S. involvement in the war. The U.S. did appropriate $13 billion in Lend-Lease aid to Britain in 1941, but when Churchill asked for 50 obsolete World War I destroyers to replace those lost in the Battle of Britain, he had to sign over Western Hemisphere bases in exchange. Besides, the U.S. was embarrassingly weak, boasting an Army of barely three divisions and an Air Force with just over 300 fighters...
These inward-looking questions are not exactly the sweeping ideological issues which would foreshadow a major re-evaluation of Japan's global role. In fact, the Socialists are more isolationist than the Liberal Democrats--they even support a cancellation of Japan's security arrangement with...