Word: ruralism
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...these workers, and the ones she finds are extraordinary: overwhelmingly female, jarringly young and driven as much by the desire to see the world beyond their village as by financial necessity. They are, more than anything else, the face of modern China: a country increasingly turning away from its rural roots and turbulent past and embracing a promising but uncertain future...
...factory girls' social lives: "Many women regarded apartment ownership as a prerequisite for a date. That was common in Chinese personals, which sometimes read like real estate listings, as in this ad in a magazine for rural women: A 27-YEAR-OLD MAN...DIVORCED WITH AN OPEN NATURE...POSSESSING A FIVE-BEDROOM TILE HOUSE WITH FURNITURE, MODERN APPLIANCES, AND A MOTORCYCLE, SEEKS A WOMAN TO BE A PARTNER FOR LIFE. The preoccupation with property was not as mercenary as it appeared, like height, apartment ownership was a marker, a sign that a man could be depended...
...handbook describes as "the integrated and interdisciplinary study of the United States and its culture." Peers tease her for devoting her undergraduate years to a nation that twice elected George W. Bush President, but that doesn't faze her. "We love America," says De Feo, who hails from the rural English county of Hertfordshire. "America has a lot more to it than its President...
...Scholar and freshman at Columbia, said she “probably” would have applied to Harvard if it were part of the program, but she was doubtful she would have attended, as Columbia was her first choice.Joseph L. Barnett, a QuestBridge Scholar at Princeton, came from a rural, underdeveloped area and lived in a two-bedroom apartment while attending a large public school. He would have definitely applied to Harvard had it been on the list, he said.Princeton happens to be one of the schools that offers non-binding admission through QuestBridge, but Barnett ruled out applying...
...followed a cord of suburban and rural communities that connects the urban Democratic strongholds of Kansas City and St. Louis. After stops along the way, I found myself in Lincoln County, driving through a little subdivision of newly minted homes called Ashleigh Estates, looking for voters to interview. A group of young families was gathered on a concrete driveway, next to a pickup truck with a big toolbox in the bed. Lots of kids, ranging from toddlers to preteens, were playing in the slanting evening sunshine, while a couple of the dads sipped after-work beers...