Word: notionalism
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...should beware of the patronizing notion of the Noble Savage. Many abandon the old ways through choice, while others are eager to exploit them for their commercial and tourism potential; some distort custom and tradition to their own advantage, political or pecuniary. It is not for the outsider to pick over these ancient cultures and decide what should be preserved, but for as long as they survive they are tiny windows, slowly closing, on how we all once lived...
...intentions, provided the best possible confirmation of the jihadist claims and spurred many of Europe's alienated Muslims to adopt the Islamist cause as their own. The evidence is available in the elaborate underground railroad that has brought hundreds of European Muslims to the fight in Iraq. And the notion that the West would enhance its security by occupying Iraq has proved utterly illusory. Coalition forces in Iraq face daily attacks from jihadists not because Saddam Hussein had trained a cadre of terrorists--we know there was no pre-existing relationship between Baghdad and al-Qaeda--but because...
...John Kerry, promoting a Fire Rove petition on his website. There was Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman declaring that it was not Plame or Wilson but Rove who was the victim of "blatant partisan political attacks." There was White House spokesman Scott McClellan, who had once called the notion that Rove was involved "ridiculous," looking like a piņata as he refused again and again in long and painful press conferences to comment on the implications of Rove's being a source for reporters. President Bush, who had vowed to fire anyone in his Administration who turned...
...fall of Joseph Estrada was a poor photocopy; it forced out a dysfunctional presidency and followed the constitutional line of succession by ushering in Arroyo, who was Estrada's Vice President. The riot of May 2001, dubbed EDSA Tres and instigated by Estrada's fanatical supporters, completely debased the notion of People Power...
...young student who is Chinese, I have been exposed only to the notion that China is communist and bad. I hope your report will help many readers understand that China isn't as bad as some history teachers make it out to be. Americans need to accept the fact that a country as big and as great as China will overtake...