Word: mainstream
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, his opinion suggests troubling assumptions and contradictions common in much mainstream debate over minorities in the U.S. That menace lies in insisting on seeing the minority "problem" through one lens--here applying quotas--and then setting by inference the needs of one minority against those of another...
...come to America with strong college educations and for their descendents, the miracle of "success" comes with familiar, brutal infrequency. And finally, this way of thinking ignores whatever cultural legacies remain unique to Asian-Americans--what some have labelled orthodoxy, passivity or "oriental" foreignness--and what they provoke from mainstream America...
According to Paul, "Glazer sees affirmativeaction as a regressive policy that actually limitsthe ability of minorities to achieve parity withthe mainstream. This will be a stimulatingdebate--especially since Harvard Collegeofficially recognizes Asian-Americans asminorities and yet the Mellon Fellowship islimited to Blacks, Native Americans andHispanics...
...Semitism." The first claim is dead wrong; the second is libelous. Chomsky has long called for a Palestinian state alongside Israel. This is the position of most of the world, a growing number of U.S. Jews and of the Israeli peace movement. Chomsky opposes Israeli policies, many based on mainstream Zionism (not the Zionism of Martin Buber and Albert Einstein), which deny Palestinians basic human and national rights. Chomsky believes in a single standard, condemning anti-Arab racism as well as anti-Semitism...
...opting black dance sounds, style and slang. They produce Reddi Wip pop music that comes out of nowhere but sells a cumulative 7 million on two albums, scoring with five hit singles (Cover Girl is currently No. 2), while the R. and B. brothers still struggle for the mainstream breakthrough...