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...dead. Hence many of China's top leaders have been hunting for a new national idea to justify the continued existence of the party. Economic modernization continues to be a viable theme. But the spy-plane incident pointed up another seductive ideology: nationalism. At first glance, it seems a neat trick?to substitute loyalty to the government with loyalty to the state. But as Beijing's leaders were reminded last week, nationalism is tough to control...
...blending people is more dangerous. The world generally prefers its citizens in their own neat categories: Chinese, Japanese, Siamese. They represent the sanctity of our nation-states, our flags, our soccer teams. After all, if you're not one or the other, what are you? If you're, say, half Asian and half Western, where do you belong? Are you a banana: yellow on the outside and white inside? Or an egg: white on the outside and yellow inside? Or are you, as proclaimed by that most swirled of celebrities Tiger Woods, a "Cablinasian"?a Caucasian-black-Indian-Asian smattering...
...dead. Hence many of China's top leaders have been hunting for a new national idea to justify the continued existence of the party. Economic modernization continues to be a viable theme. But the spy-plane incident pointed up another seductive ideology: nationalism. At first glance, it seems a neat trick--to substitute loyalty to the government with loyalty to the state. But as Beijing's leaders were reminded last week, nationalism is tough to control...
...peacebuilding.” They will take their cues from military dynamos such as Canada, further along than we no doubt on the celestial arch of Progress, and they will dutifully sit in on seminars about the food and drink of the society-to-be-saved. (Seminars with neat little napkins, Diet Coke, and those fun ice cubes with the holes in the middle...
...AARP card, Jane Swift is closer to my age than she is to my parents’ age. And at a time when our legislatures are stocked mostly with men who are in that “starting-to-need-hearing aids” demographic, it’s neat to see someone who brings a fresher face to the game...