Word: sentimentals
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...grain prices were at their highest. In a startling indication of dissatisfaction, an official counting referendum votes in Rakhine state told a Rangoon journalist that in 15 townships, the "no" vote ranged from 56% to 98%. (In Burma, it is unlikely that official results will reflect such inconvenient public sentiment...
...Your excellent article speaks of a wave of nationalist fervour sweeping China ahead of the Olympic Games. The Western media seem to view love of country in different ways. In the developing world it is labeled nationalism, while in the West the same sentiment is termed patriotism. Frank Yu, Melbourne...
...Threats from radical groups have also led to the closure of at least 23 "unlicensed" churches in recent months, according to press reports, a worrying sign for a nation long heralded as one of the Islamic world's most tolerant. "Hardliners are manipulating Muslim sentiment to further their own agendas," says Azyumardi Azra from the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University. "I don't believe it is part of a conspiracy as some have alleged, but more a factor of certain groups pushing the boundaries of democracy and the freedoms it brings...
...think they should be aware of what the dangers are in the place they’re going to, but I still think there’s a lot to be learned and gained,” she says.Clapham also says she found a substantial degree of anti-American sentiment, although certainly not among everyone. “They think all Americans are really fat, that they are always spending their money, that the [U.S.] government takes advantage of and abuses Latin American countries economically,” Clapham says, referring to some of the stereotypes she encountered...
...campus culture contemptuous of patriotic ardor and saturated with overwrought human rights rhetoric, a word in praise of military service stands proxy for anti-gay sentiment...