Word: mainstreamers
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...seems like small (crazy) potatoes after Stalin’s enormous (crazy) feast.Now, when Harvard undergraduates invoke the father of communism, it’s not as a political herald but as a conversation piece for social studies concentrators. Even then, Marx is a little too mainstream; when trying to communicate one’s extraordinary acquaintance with great thinkers, his monosyllabic moniker gets lost amid the sea of Walter Benjamins and Jürgen Habermases (the more strange accents, the more intellectual firepower).Today, striving for revolution seems a bit anachronistic: one student called Marxist ideology...
...this Himalayan nation of 27 million. The election culminated a process begun two years ago, when Maoist-backed mass protests brought down Nepal's 240-year-old monarchy and leveraged the former guerrillas, still on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist groups, into the country's political mainstream. As the prime movers in Nepal's transition from royal rule, they will preside over the monarchy's formal abolition...
...assimilation of the Oroqen has been only somewhat successful, says Hing Chao, chairman of the Orochen Foundation, a Hong Kong--based charity that works to preserve the tribe's traditions. "They are assimilated, yes. But they are not integrated into the mainstream of society." To help the Oroqen cope, Beijing has launched initiatives including free housing, farming assistance and education. It's still possible that the Oroqen's future under China will be magnificent. But by then much of their heritage, like the game they once hunted, will have disappeared into the forests for good...
...means to be American. And that in a post-1965, post-Open Door Act world, when we’re in the midst of the largest non-European wave of immigration ever, our center of gravity of what it means to be American shifts. And as much as the mainstream changes immigrants, immigrants change the mainstream. That’s the point I’m trying to make.THC: So that’s your main message. JL: Yeah, and also to talk about the Chinese diaspora without being boring. If I said, “Wow, there...
...hardships faced during the American-led sanctions of 1991-2003, which Antoon refers to as “genocidal.”Overall, Al-Damluji and Antoon both hope that Contemporary Iraqi Film will serve as a platform to present issues not normally addressed by the mainstream American media. “After five years of war and hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars, Americans know very little about Iraq and Iraqis beyond the depressingly simplistic,” Antoon says. “It’s high time for that to change...