Word: nationhoods
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...this attention to the past makes perfect sense, to a point. How is one to deal with the unimaginable if one forgets that it actually occurred? Surely the Arab states' initial response to Israel's nationhood did nothing to encourage Jewish forgetfulness, nor does the recent Fez conference suggest that the Arabs are less ensnared by the past than the Israelis. What is to prevent Israel, one bomb wide, from becoming the worst disaster yet in Jewish history? So goes the question, still reaching toward yesterday. Yet the answer lies in the present, in what Israel is right...
...before it even began. After 34 years of fighting, through four major wars, the nation has reached a saturation point. Its economy is over-wrought (inflation is 130 percent), its founding idealism has diminished, and it feels the time has come to peacefully reap the fruits of nationhood...
...Argentina, a country of 28 million, traditionally riven by factionalism. Says Francisco Manrique, 63, president of the country's suspended Federal Party: "Whatever happens in the Falklands and whatever mistakes the government made are secondary. The fact is that Argentines now have a sense of pride and nationhood as never before." The war was also bringing about a realignment of Argentine foreign policy. Staunchly Roman Catholic, anti-Communist and pro-Western, Argentina has responded to U.S. and Western European support for Britain in the Falklands battle by threatening to turn to the Soviet Union for military aid. Last week...
Mexican Author and Diplomat Carlos Fuentes at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.: "Nationalism represents a profound value for Latin Americans simply because of the fact that our nationhood is still in question. In New York, Paris or London, no one loses sleep asking themselves whether the nation exists. In Latin America you can wake up and find that the nation s no longer there, usurped by a military junta, a multinational corporation or an American ambassador surrounded by a jevy of technical advisers. That the junta in Buenos Aires, acting under the impression that it had been given the green...
...assessment of Africa after 20 years of independence, Lamb concludes that Black Africa remains "economically dependent on its former colonial masters, uncertain of its own identity and purpose, divided by ideology, and perplexed by the demands of nationhood...