Word: performativity
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...fact: Switzerland hasn’t seen combat in roughly two centuries. A less widely known fact (at least in the United States): All able-bodied Swiss men are obligated to enroll in the military at the age of 18 and, after an initial training period of nine months, perform additional local training every year until the age of 30. Women may volunteer...
...right to ask for civilian service in place of military service, but this choice has to be one of a conscientious objector, and is voted upon by committee. Those who are found physically or psychologically unfit for service are required to pay an extra 3 percent tax and perform some other civic service, such as fire department duty...
...Some conflicts between Western values and traditional immigrant cultures will be easy calls, like footbinding, or East African immigrants who seek out doctors to perform genital mutilation on their daughters. Other issues, like burqas, are more problematic. Fundamental values, like gender or racial equality, need to be weighed against freedom of expression. Each country has to find its own balance between tolerance of immigrant cultures and preservation of its own distinctive national values and traditions...
...have noplace to perform live music," laments the electro producer. "Under Ahmadinejad, it is absolutely a dictatorship." He says that during Mohammad Khatami's presidency from 1997 to 2005, when Western street culture took hold in Iran and many underground artists got their start, he was able to hold public concerts that hundreds of fans attended. Now, even concerts held at private residences are likely to be interrupted by the religious police. He describes a recent rock party thrown by his friends where some 200 concertgoers were arrested in a late-night sting by the Basij; later, the government issued...
...There’s a difference between blaming slow progress on a legitimate lack of resources and excusing yourself for being “unable” to perform a task that requires little more than brainpower, simply because you’re African. If the fact that people come from this continent precludes them from being able to work efficiently and independently—following deadlines, organizing lists, and thinking through problems instead of allowing them to sort themselves out, for example—then who will do that sort of necessary work for the African people? The evangelical...