Word: non-european
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...romance and condescension of the word primitive, African works have come to be valued for their intrinsic beauty and artistic merit. In the 1950s, both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art turned down an opportunity to acquire Nelson Rockefeller's extensive collection of non-European art, prompting Rockefeller to found the Museum of Primitive Art in New York City in 1954. By 1969 the Met had had a change of heart. In 1982 it opened its Rockefeller Wing, which absorbed the entire contents of the Museum of Primitive Art. Smaller galleries have echoed this trend...
...Europeans will continue to have its fraught moments. The values gap between Europe and the U.S. may be smaller than many think, but there are two senses in which the Atlantic dialogue is moving onto new and, for Americans, unfamiliar ground. The first involves the growing economic power of the European Union. Welch allowed that he was "surprised" by the demands made by Mario Monti, the E.U.'s antitrust commissioner, which only goes to show that one of America's most respected CEOs can't always be well informed. The E.U. has been exercising jurisdiction over mergers between non-European...
...north-west Europe. The English colonies in the Americas were subject to weaker controls on the part of the imperial government than was the case in other imperial systems. In addition both before and after Columbian contact, north-west Europe had much less exposure to, and intercourse with, non-European peoples than, say, had the Portuguese and the Spanish. The English and Dutch were more likely to view non-European peoples as lying outside the social contract and therefore beyond the protection of the web of individual rights they were weaving for themselves. As long as some group is regarded...
...directive aims to create that most subjective of trade goals, a level playing field. As matters stand, European companies operate at a disadvantage on the Web. E.U. regulations force them to charge VAT to their customers wherever they are located; non-E.U. firms do not force consumers to pay the tax anywhere. Brussels has been under pressure from member states and European content providers to correct that obvious flaw in the tax regime. (Revealingly, the commission did not propose adopting the non-European practices...
Reducing policy competition among the nations of Europe will therefore reduce the ability of European companies to compete in world markets. The result will be increased trade friction with the U.S. and other countries as Europe attempts to block American and other non-European products on the ground that they are made under "unfair conditions," i.e, in countries with lower tax rates and more flexible labor markets...