Word: saxonism
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Upon returning to Moscow in 1944 after a seven-year absence, the American diplomat George Kennan was struck by the enigma of an empire both yearning for its rightful place in the modern world and clinging to the enfeebling insularity of its past. "The Anglo-Saxon instinct is to attempt to smooth away contradictions," he wrote. "The Russian tends to deal only in extremes, and he is not particularly concerned to reconcile them. To him, contradiction is a familiar thing. It is the essence of Russia...
...experience is ridiculous, and to deny minority students who do not come from ethnic communities the opportunity to share experiences and celebrate a heritage is racist. It is racist because America is a pluralist society where different experiences should not be ranked in order of desirability with monolithic Anglo-Saxon Protestant sensibilities on top. Anyone who has lived in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, or New York knows that multicultural and amalgam communities are the norm, not the exception...
When he was 13, he was shipped off to England to be educated at Rugby. His Anglo-Saxon schoolmates wasted no time in letting him know that he did not fit in; they snickered while, facing his first English breakfast, Rushdie tried to figure out how to eat a kipper...
...Black student rose and challenged him on why the works of Black writers should not be included in the pantheon of great books. Bloom was unyielding, and the student proceeded to rail against the ancients as white Anglo-Saxon protestants. The slip was for Bloom, and no doubt for many, proof of the unthinking mindset of many minorities who demand inclusion...
...reconciliation, economic growth and social reform. Washington also held Duarte -- and others in Central America -- to the pluralistic standards of North America at a time when the Latin tradition of the caudillo, or strongman, might have proved more effective. "The U.S. wants to use the rules of Anglo- Saxon culture to bring about changes in Latin culture," says Emilio Alvarez, an ophthalmologist in Managua. "It hasn't worked, and it won't work...