Word: mainstreaming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same enthusiasm as the performance of People's Liberation Army rescue crews. The normally muzzled Chinese press has been freed by the information ministry to saturate the airwaves with quake coverage. The leash was also loosened for the unruly Internet. Popular blogs were relatively uncensored; commentators posting to mainstream discussion forums were even allowed to criticize the government's handling of some aspects of relief operations - the failure to use helicopters during the first three days after the quake, for example. As surprising as the freedom is the sophistication of the coverage: it's on television and radio around...
...studying in Beijing, where she was continuously reminded that the real cuisine was nothing like the deep-fried, sauce-coated dishes U.S. diners thought of as Chinese. Chinese food in China, she knew, was much healthier, with less sodium and grease (and more varied animal parts) than Americans imagine. "Mainstream Americans don't like to be reminded that the food on their plate once lived, breathed, swam, or walked," writes Lee. Neither do they pause to think of just how Americanized, in the U.S., Chinese food - or more accurately Chinese-style food - has become. Lee points out that there...
...People's Liberation Army troops and paramilitary police officers in the disaster area. The normally muzzled Chinese press has been freed by the information ministry to saturate the airwaves with quake coverage. The leash on the Internet was also loosened. Popular blogs have been uncensored; commentators posting to mainstream discussion forums were even allowed to criticize the government's handling of some aspects of the relief--the failure to use helicopters for the first three days after the quake, for example...
...Presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama chalk sexual orientation up to some combination of biological and environmental factors. If they are right, then to oppose same-sex marriage is to oppose a societal avenue toward commitment, toward monogamy, and toward maintaining social structures that are in line with mainstream society. Given that a prevailing criticism of gay Americans is that their lifestyles are licentious, then encouraging them to pursue more conservative ends is an appropriate measure to make homosexuality less “objectionable.” Social conservatives ought to get behind the right to same-sex marriage...
...innovative strategy. Furthermore, even Mondale, a Democrat, felt he had to straddle the line between opposing gay lifestyles and approving of them, telling his political allies, “The trick is to say you’re against discrimination without endorsing their lifestyle.” Most mainstream candidates today would not dream of condemning gay voters. That a Democratic candidate could have said this as recently as twenty-five years ago serves to show the degree this struggle has advanced and what vast numbers of people can be won over...