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...modern, he thought, is to be artificially aglow...
Then, however, he recalled the world's other great modern metropolis--murky, sullen, dun-colored London, which he had visited last year. It was a city that seemed to darken a little more every day from the soot belched by smokestacks and chimneys...
...right, then, an amended declaration: modern America glows...
...singular and belligerent identities on gullible people.” Using historical examples and a personable style, Sen creates a simple yet powerful discourse on individual choice and identity that offers valuable insight on people from all social and political contexts.Sen presents a cogent theory about the structure of modern society by positing that each person has many ways to define him- or herself—nationality, gender, religion, and ethnicity being among the almost infinite possibilities.The crux of Sen’s argument lies with the idea that “the importance of one identity need not obliterate...
This recent sequence of events offers illumination into the way that modern international relations work, and suggests that the United States’ most graceful way out of Iraq may be to just say, “Oops...