Word: prided
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...find work every year, while thousands more go illegally. "For some, going abroad is about seeking better opportunities and social mobility," says Rainuka Dagar, senior research fellow at the Chandigarh-based Institute for Development and Communication, "But for many, it is about status. It is a symbol of pride to have a member of the family living and earning abroad." In many communities, "marriage to an NRI is considered a status symbol as it gets the entire family a chance to go abroad," says Santosh Singh, chairperson of the government-affiliated Family Counseling Centre in Chandigarh...
...international students seem to be proud of their transgression. They celebrate it, though the Woodbridge Society, and student cultural organizations, and the Spee Club, and I don’t like it one bit. Harvard is incredibly generous to offer admission to people with such an odious and misplaced pride in their place of birth (though I suppose once they started taking people from New Jersey, they had to stay consistent). So here is my call, not for womanish leniency, but for more manful restrictions on the issuance of visas. As much as I support the concept of brain drain?...
...common phenomenon within the Asian community I know to be confused about the acceptable level of internal Asian to embrace. On one end of the spectrum lie self-isolated cliques of swaggering, slouchy-jeaned teenagers flashing AZN pride signals across high school cafeterias. On the other end are perfectly American girls sporting ponytails and Cokes who confess to never having found an Asian man attractive and admit, embarrassedly, that it is in fact social suicide to have too many Asian friends. The rest of us who remain uncaricatured—well...
This mixture of self-interest, pride, and kindness seems distinctively American, in the best tradition of a pushy, bold, but charitable people. With this national character, tipping is bound to continue and even expand. Many restaurants are now adding a mandatory service charge (sometimes up to 18 to 20 percent) to checks, and some consumers have even started tipping Starbucks baristas. As we enter what some call a second Gilded Age, it is appropriate that we may see increased tipping...
...they say, Thailand's cultural guardians are finding new ways to suppress controversial films. Opponents also claim that the criteria for classification are intentionally vague. One sweeping clause in the draft legislation states that films should not "undermine social order or moral decency" or affect the "security and pride of the nation." And X-rated works are simply not allowed: under the proposed law, films classified as such must be either bowdlerized or banned...