Word: repression
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...president, Jung Il Kim is viewed by most Koreans as pampered and spoiled. Unlike most spoiled children, however, he has tangible power in North Korea and has used it to repress basic freedoms and violate civil rights. Most Koreans resent him and his imminent ascension to the presidency...
Singer insists that trauma does not cause people to repress memories, although bits and pieces of experience can be lost through amnesia. In fact, she says, trauma has just the opposite effect: people can't forget it. As an example, she cites the cases of Vietnam veterans who suffer flashbacks and posttraumatic stress disorder...
Needless to say, gays and lesbians have an enormous investment in improving race relations, not only because racism divides our community, but because much of the prejudices that disempower people of color also serve to repress gays, particularly gay men and women of color...
...kind of richness, but you constantly feel you have to make a choice." But forcing a selection may not be the wisest course. "You create a sexual neuter if you attempt to wipe out one set of feelings over the other," warns Wedin. "The more you attempt to repress it, the greater the disruption it tends to cause in the other set of feelings...
...that might even drive out the best pilots." Some Pentagon officials fret (anonymously, of course) that curbing Navy pilots' sexual feistiness will remove the edge they need for combat. Democrat Patricia Schroeder, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, responds, "It's possible to be brave and still repress your roaring testosterone...