Word: mainstreaming
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...refreshing take on the company's culture of technological transformation. There are not many great innovators still kicking around in the business world, but Steve Jobs and Apple Computer are leading the way. With them in the forefront, it won't be long before home theater becomes mainstream. I can't wait. Frank Katch anta Barbara, California...
...riot-torn area and calling the residents "scum," as France's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy did [Nov. 21]? 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, the French have no inhibitions about crudely stating their reaction to events, no matter how offensive their comments might be. Attitude is only one of the problems in France. The country needs to get rid of its outmoded approach...
...Charles Krauthammer wrote about the alienated young Arabs in France and their prospects for assimilation and success [Nov. 21]. I was startled by his assertion that France needs "to undertake the kind of self-reformation that America did in the 1960s, when it finally began welcoming African Americans into mainstream society." Is he forgetting the 1960s riots, led by unemployed and disenfranchised blacks, that engulfed the U.S.? I don't call that self-reformation. When black people took to American streets, they finally got a little respect. I suspect that the unemployed Arab and black youth in France want nothing...
...appeasing the Arab world by enforcing a law that strictly bars young girls from wearing Muslim headscarves in public schools or by opposing the war in Iraq? That is not appeasement; that is self-interest. Like all other multicultural nations, France will have to effectively integrate minorities into its mainstream society. The problem is an internal socioeconomic one, and it has nothing to do with Islam or the broader problems of the Middle East. Murad Elsaidi Little Rock, Arkansas...
...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...