Word: royals
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...weeks ago, I found myself outside the New York University dorm I was living in, sitting on a plastic crate and talking late into the night with two affable fruit vendors, Yasin and Royal, as they sipped Dunkin' Donuts coffee. They often work for 15-hours shifts that last until 7 a.m., six days a week, for about $100 a day. Though they earn low wages, Royal attends college in Azerbaijan, and Yasin is a student at one of Turkey's best universities. They came to New York this summer on short-term visas, hoping to improve their English...
...Yasin and Royal live far away from my Manhattan dorm, in the cheaper outer boroughs, so they must commute for hours each day. They have never been to Central Park or even to Washington Square, just a few blocks away from Yasin's stand on 14th Street. They have never been to Central Park SummerStage or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, even though they are free. Not surprisingly, in their nocturnal isolation, they feel alienated. New York City is home to every variety of humanity, and at times it seems that everyone is rich, and comfortable in the main stream...
...Relations between the sexes, too, pose a problem. Royal told me that it is difficult to watch young men and women walk by on the street, flirting and touching each other with limbs exposed. In Azerbaijan, he said, a woman generally speaks sweetly and softly while looking only at her male partner. Royal feels that in New York he cannot express his opinions about relationships, or about religion more broadly. He believes that his English is bad enough that he could not hope to express the truths contained in the Koran, and encouraged me to read it for myself. Though...
...America, women can wear what they want. In recent years, I added, Harvard has constructed a private prayer space for Muslim students, and given Muslim women special hours for working out in the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center. My words fell on uncomprehending ears. I was as powerless as Royal to communicate my beliefs. The two friends did not understand what I meant when I spoke of "cosmopolitanism" or "multiculturalism." In the process of trying to talk about protecting traditional Islamic cultural practices, I had mangled their identities. Yasin's female friends in Istanbul do not wear head garb, or need...
...Critics of the Indian police system point out that the force continues to operate on the basis of the Police Act of 1861, which India's British colonial rulers had modeled after the Royal Irish Constabulary - a security force they had deployed to subdue a restive population. "[After] independence, the style never changed, the subject-ruler relation has endured," says Sanjay Patil, program officer with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), whose book Feudal Forces: Reform Delayed - Moving from Force to Service in South Asian Policing is due to be released next week. The book holds the political culture...