Word: notionalism
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...play marbles with pits of dragon eye fruit the way Chen did when he was a boy. They still go swimming in the creek and roast water chestnuts on charcoal braziers. When Chen was growing up here during the 1950s, Taiwan was still struggling for survival; today's grandiose notion of cultural identity was a distant luxury. While the newly arrived leaders of the Kuomintang, freshly landed from the mainland, were building their capital in Taipei, for the native Taiwanese, descendants mostly of Fujian and Guangdong natives who settled during the 17th century, life was hardscrabble. What kids like...
...Taiwan's twenty- and thirtysomethings, to whom Chen probably owes his March 2000 plurality victory when he took just 39% of the overall vote, the notion of reunification with the mainland?even along the lines of Hong Kong's "one country, two systems"?is not so much unpalatable as non sequitur. Why, exactly, should Taiwan subsume its coolness to China's cultural bludgeon? There really isn't a good reason except some notion that one China is better than two. But in more than 50 years as a de facto state, and particularly over the past decade, Taiwan has forged...
...host of irregularities during the 1995 balloting, which led losing candidates to challenge the ruling party's victory in court. While it forms no part of the charges, many suspect that Ibrahim's gomlokiya wisecrack did him in. That may seem odd, since the President has laughed at the notion that his son is a pharaoh-in-waiting, and the professor has been on cordial terms with the First Family. Ibrahim taught Mubarak's wife and both of the couple's sons, and has served as an occasional unpaid consultant to the presidency. "I have a lot of regard...
...recipients of the teaching prize dismissed the notion that undergraduate teaching takes a back seat at Harvard to other scholarly tasks, such as research...
...whacked before the sex got stale and everyone saw him for what he was." Clinton? "I hate him with a biblical passion. He is monstrous and shallow, a cold, manipulative man with a warm front, infantile with women...I would never have done Monica." American innocence? "This preposterous notion that Americans are innocent when this country is based on land grabs, slavery and slaughter of indigenous people. Are you insane...