Word: resents
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...dining, drinking and dating together. "We understand each other," says Nicole Terio, one of the group. "It comes from knowing what it means to grow up between two cultures." But the luk kreung's close-knit community and Western-stoked confidence sometimes elicits grumbles from other Thais, who also resent their stranglehold on the entertainment industry. The ultimate blow came a few years back when Thailand sent a blue-eyed woman to the Miss World competition. Sirinya Winsiri, also known as Cynthia Carmen Burbridge, beat out another half-Thai, half-American for the coveted Miss Thailand spot. "Luk kreung have...
...last December. Jiang has forced the People's Liberation Army to withdraw from many of its lucrative business enterprises, though he has tried to raise morale by boosting defense spending 18% this year. But many officers still feel that China has grown too chummy with the U.S. They resent the U.S. surveillance flights along the Chinese coastline--something the U.S. would never tolerate on its borders--and they resent the fact that the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Japan could defeat China's entire navy. "The military likes to have an enemy, and that's how it sees the U.S.," says...
...coming, they might have averted that fiasco and helped the U.S.-Cuba-USSR relationship that eventually led up to the missile crisis. Besides, as much as readers and viewers hate an aggressive media that seems to be stirring up trouble, in the long run - and more deeply - they resent and mistrust a quiet, smug understanding among media and government elites to maintain a united front above simple common sense in reporting. That willingness to straight-facedly repeat nonsense is essential to diplomacy, and it has nothing to do with journalism, which, popular opinion and our own vanity notwithstanding...
...second lesson is the need for cultural sensitivity. There's obviously a cultural gap between the two sides. The Chinese resent the fact that even before an investigation could be conducted, the Americans were blaming the accident on China, and expressing no concern over the fate of the Chinese pilot. From the Chinese point of view this speaks of callousness and arrogance...
...Some have argued that the continued use of "comix" is pretentious and useless. To begin with, the difference between comic book subgenres has long been smeared into a smooth gradient. As a result, people sense an elitism in the term, and resent...