Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...being regarded at home as fringe contributors, when in reality their wages are almost always essential to the family's survival. Some immigrant women have been physically abused by employers. Many of the women among Southeast Asian boat people were abducted and raped by marauding pirates; they still suffer shame and a haunting sense that they have somehow betrayed their families. Worse yet, once in the U.S., their men, who may have trouble finding work, sometimes turn on them. Says Gaoly Yang, who helped battered Hmong women from Laos who now live in St. Paul form a support group...
These conflicting tugs of direction are a perplexing constant in the lives of millions of youthful American immigrants. Growing up in two cultures is at once a source of frustration and delight, shame and pride, guilt and satisfaction. It can be both a barrier to success and a goad to accomplishment, a dislocating burden or an enriching benison. First-generation Americans have an "astonishing duality," declares Harvard Psychiatrist Robert Coles, himself the son of an English immigrant. "They tend to have a more heightened awareness both of being American and also of being connected to another country...
...then, after the pilot shouted over the radio, "He just killed a passenger! He just killed a passenger!" that a hijacker declared, "You see? You now believe it. There will be another in five minutes." When the control- tower operator remonstrated with him, saying, "Isn't it a shame, killing an innocent passenger?" the hijacker replied angrily, "Did you forget the Bir al Abed massacre?" He was referring to the March 8 car bombing in the Bir al Abed suburb of Beirut that killed more than 75 Shi'ite Muslims but failed to hurt Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadallah...
Until last week no Mengele had publicly expressed an iota of remorse for the doctor's activities or cooperated with the West German inquiry. The family's aloofness and secrecy had convinced some of the frustrated West German investigators that the clan bore no sense of shame or sorrow for Josef's wartime crimes. The lack of cooperation was a major drawback for the probers, since West German law does not require family members to aid in any investigation of their kin, no matter how distant the relationship...
...stickers two weeks ago. During the six-month period of the sentence, offenders are permitted to drive only for work purposes. Most ordered to display scarlet bumpers have done so. But several have appealed, arguing that the judges have exceeded their sentencing authority. "We've lost our sense of shame in this country," responds Judge Titus, "and humiliation as punishment is valid." The Puritans would have applauded...