Word: nationhoods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bantustan plan and the World Court's decision have been greeted with responses ranging from indifference to incomprehension. Few of the 96,000 whites-chiefly Afrikaners, Germans and Britons-doubt that South African rule is for the best. Among blacks, there is tribal loyalty but no feeling of nationhood. Says Dr. Romanus Kapungu, a doctor in canon law from Rome University and chief councilor of the Kavango tribal authority: "If you asked most of our people, they wouldn't know what all the fuss is about...
...National Movement. Most opposition leaders and their supporters, like Poet Loutoo, advocated an election boycott. As is true in much of the Caribbean, Trinidad has severe economic problems; unemployment is rising, tourism is in trouble, and many islanders are disgruntled that they have not reaped the benefits of nationhood or industrial development. The boycott was a protest against the government's refusal to adopt certain electoral reforms. It enabled the Prime Minister's party to win all 36 seats in the lower house of Parliament, but the opposition scored a tactical victory by holding the turnout to only...
...debate over Vietnam at home long ago became a debate over the morality and uses of power. Interventionists claimed the issue of Communism and Indochina was the decisive one. Opponents of intervention stressed the right of the Vietnamese to nationhood or to some kind of self determined political settlement. Very few tried to argue from strictly diplomatic criteria-to discover not what was in the interest of the free world or the Vietnamese people but what was in the interest of the United States...
Along with a flag and an anthem, the symbols of nationhood all too often include a money-losing national airline. Since 1950, the number of "flag" carriers has proliferated to the point that there are almost as many as there are countries in the U.N. At least one airline is sensibly going against the trend. Tiny Austrian Airlines, which is distinguished by excellent service and frequent deficits, is seeking a shelter under the broad wings of Swissair...
...generation. The proudest moment in the lives of their parents or grandparents was the citizenship ceremony when they received the flag. My own immigrant father took every chance to fly the flag as an affirmation of citizenship. You don't have to do this in England or France, where nationhood is deduced from history. Here you've got a created country with a continuing history, and you see it all written on the flag...