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This kind of eagerness--and this kind of success--has frightened many Europeans who remember all too well the dangers of a powerful unified German state. Many Europeans perceive rising German nationalism as a threat to the transnational institutions they have built over the last 40 years--most notably the...
; Countries like France and Japan don't perceive themselves as nations of bigots. Neither condones violence or the persecution of minorities. But both see themselves as possessing a certain superiority -- cultural in France, ethnic in Japan -- and they are uncomfortable with the presence of aliens. Such largely unspoken social attitudes...
There is scant precedent for such a reversal. Goaded by financial necessity, women's colleges have increasingly been forced to choose between two futures: going coed or going under. Since 1960 the number of such schools has dwindled from 298 to 93, with more dominoes poised to fall. "Women still...
Blacks, who feel they waited longest and endured most in the fight for equal opportunity, are uneasy about being supplanted by Hispanics or, in some areas, by Asians as the numerically largest and most influential minority -- and even more, about being outstripped in wealth and status by these newer groups...
"Their speech is killing me," she said. "When you see these images, on some level it will effect the way you perceive women and the way you treat them."