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...honor of those whose social capital has fallen (and fallen fast), Gossip Guy has decided, for one week and one week only, to endeavor for a column that couldn’t possibly offend anyone. Yet, invariably, it will offend someone, so check back next week to find out whom...
...China scholar Ross Munro has written, “academic Sinologists tend to produce polite reports and mushy books that rarely go beyond cautiously advancing the consensus of the Sinological establishment. Even when addressing China’s direst problems, they have perfected language and phrasing that will not offend Chinese officialdom. To offend is to jeopardize one’s ability to visit China and interview Chinese officials and academics—access that constitutes the bread and butter of the Sinological trade. No access means no field research, fewer research grants, and—for the top Sinologists?...
...Americans were left to deal with conventional E.R. complaints. A young woman had rising blood pressure in her skull; a man needed a cast repair. Harvard Medical School professor Gary Fleisher refrained from touching an 11-year-old girl until assured by an Iranian that it would not offend local mores for a male doctor to tend to her. Iranian doctors taught the Americans to weed out addicts who showed up looking for morphine; before the quake, Bam authorities had been battling a thriving heroin trade. A local physician, put out by the presence of the Americans, was calmed...
...signers of the e-mail said they did not think that HRL meant to offend people with the posters...
...They began to dance, gyrating their hips in a manner that "for Chinese was just nauseating," said one spectator. After three minutes university authorities frantically motioned for the organizers to close the curtains. The Japanese contingent had certainly performed in bad taste; but had it been their intention to offend their Chinese hosts...