Word: nationalists
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...twice the national average of 9.6%. This leads to growing frustration among the youngsters and makes many of them susceptible to political and religious extremism. In recent years, they have boosted the popularity of both fundamentalist Islamic organizations like Milli Görüs - New World Perspective - and nationalist Turkish associations...
...army the Self-Defense Force. Its soldiers don't wear uniforms on their commute to offices in Japan. Despite an annual defense budget of $40 billion - and such high-tech arms as F2 fighters and guided missile destroyers - newspapers were enraged last year when Tokyo's governor, the nationalist Shintaro Ishihara, referred to the Self-Defense Force as a "military." Years ago, children of Japan's 240,000 servicemen and women were bullied by schoolteachers: teachers' unions in Japan are strongly pacifist. The army's involvement in peacekeeping missions since 1992 has changed that image and teachers now take kids...
...Minh and his cohorts were communists, to be sure, but it was their nationalist credentials that earned them popular support. They had led their nation's resistance to Japanese occupation and French colonialism, and their defeat of the French at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 prompted France to sign a withdrawal agreement at Geneva. The Geneva agreement temporarily divided the country into northern and southern zones for purposes of demobilization, pending nationwide elections for an independent government. But with the Cold War in full swing, the U.S. was furious at the French for setting up a Southeast...
...city's dominant religious authorities, skewered in the Gospels, were the Sadducees, who made up most of the Temple elite, and the Pharisees, respected for their ongoing explorations of the correct interpretation of religious law. But the city also played host to groups like the Zealots, a militant nationalist group, and the Essenes. The Essenes detested the Temple priests, lived in monastic communities and may have been authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the treasure trove of texts uncovered in the Judean desert in 1947. Josephus assigns the Essenes a membership of 4,000, only 2,000 fewer than...
...China has to be careful about stoking nationalist impulses. In 1919, Peking University student protests against Western treatment of China spiraled out of control and ended up bringing down the government. When a group of Qinghua University students tried to organize a demonstration in Beijing last week, the government squelched it. For the time being, China's future leaders will have to rely on video games to vent their patriotic fervor...