Word: pots
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...fuel?there's none at all. Sickness is everywhere. "I have a husband and three children," said a woman dressed in rags, "and one of us is always ill." Nearby, a dying 18-month-old child, as skeletal as a famine victim, clung to a slightly older sister pot-bellied with disease. Just offshore, tourist boats skimmed past on day trips to more photogenic places...
...traffickers, who cruise the city's free-for-all intersections in dark-windowed late-model Land Cruisers and Pajeros. Like native Mandalayans, I negotiated the streets by bicycle or trishaw, or else flagged down a 40-year-old Mazda B600 taxi, Burma's answer to the Trabant. Exploring the pot-holed backstreets, I came across extravagant faux-classical mansions towering over otherwise destitute neighborhoods where poor sanitation feeds regular outbreaks of cholera and pariah dogs nose through uncollected rubbish. In Burma, it seems, there are only two kinds of new buildings: museums constructed to celebrate the elimination of the narcotics...
...sure, Huntington’s thesis is not unassailable. He is, in my view, unduly pessimistic about the capacity of the melting pot to work for Mexican immigrants. There seems little historical or social-scientific merit to his contention that intrinsic “Mexican values” retard their assimilation. This argument is disturbingly reminiscent of the “Asian values” shibboleth that was used to justify authoritarian dictatorships in Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea. It’s obvious why Mexican-Americans would find it wholly offensive...
...situation we face today vis-à-vis Mexican immigration. He quotes former National Intelligence Council Vice Chairman Graham Fuller, who says of the Mexican-dominated regions of the American Southwest, “We may be building toward the one thing that will choke the melting pot, an ethnic area and grouping so concentrated that it will not wish, or need, to undergo assimilation into the mainstream of American multi-ethnic English-speaking life...
...Gore famously mistranslated our national motto, E pluribus unum, as “out of one, many.” Lamentably, the balkanization implied by Gore’s mistranslation could eventually come to pass if we don’t rediscover the assimilationist, melting pot ideal. Acceptance of that ideal presupposes a faith in the basic virtues of American life and the essential decency of the American people. If Huntington’s forthcoming book, Who Are We?, helps reinvigorate that faith among our cultural elites, he will have performed a valuable service indeed...