Word: rieff
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Speakers will include David Rieff, author of Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and The Failure of the West;His Excellency Muhamed Sacirbey, Bosnian ambassador to the United Nations; Stephen Walker, executive director of the American Committee to Save Bosnia; and several representatives of other human rights groups...
...Angeles: Capital of the Third World, David Rieff says the U.S. has "stopped being an extension of Europe, and has, for better or worse, struck out on its own, an increasingly nonwhite country adrift, however majestically and powerfully, in an increasingly nonwhite world." Perhaps. Native Americans inhabited California before the European-Americans arrived, and the white civilization could prove evanescent. Maybe white Americans are simply redrawing their absolute perspectives. What the TV weather forecasters in Los Angeles call the "southland" is El Norte to Latin Americans. America's Far West is Japan's Far East...