Word: mainstreamers
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...going to a riot-torn area and calling the residents "scum," as France's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy did? That should be political suicide, but Sarkozy got away with it. As a French citizen of South Asian origin, I would say that callousness represents the state of affairs in mainstream French society. Unlike the Anglo-Saxons, who have a penchant for politeness and political correctness, the French have no inhibitions about crudely stating their reaction to events. The country needs to get rid of its outmoded approach to race, immigration and integration. Gautham Venkata-Chalam Ottawa It is an illusion...
...have found skepticism about evolution running high in the United States. One poll, conducted by the Pew Research Center in July, found that only 26 percent of Americans believe that humans evolved by natural selection. That process is the foundation of Darwin’s theory, universally accepted by mainstream biologists today...
...dark, nursing an inferiority complex or a grudge. "What comics are going through is like a civil rights movement," says Spiegelman. "This museum show will help." Like Hitchcock thrillers and rock 'n' roll, comics are obeying the tidal pull of pop culture. What was once forbidden is now mainstream; what was once junk is now classic...
...brought to the fore a pragmatic indigenous leadership, which in turn has inspired a broader range of people and institutions - from banks to think tanks - to support Aboriginal initiatives. Leaders, such as Noel Pearson from Cape York, now speak of ownership, responsibility and individuality; urging indigenous people to be mainstream, mobile, acquisitive and ambitious, and to reject the so-called "sit-down money" of welfare. The Moree jobs model, with its ethos of pride, self-reliance and social mobility, fits the new thinking, and is now on the move. In the past few years, the AES has opened offices...
...there's a prevailing movement that Estens and a gaggle of bureaucrats can't reverse: Australia's booming economy is not generating enough unskilled work, particularly for men. According to Bob Gregory, professor of economics at the ANU, it's getting harder - not easier - for Aboriginal people to gain mainstream employment (that is, outside the burgeoning indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme). Despite massive spending on job training programs, the results have been "extraordinarily poor," argues Gregory, who estimates each full-time job from one intensive assistance program has cost taxpayers $A75,000. Without a change in economy-wide forces...