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...plants. "If you stay in your village, it is easy to pick up this learning because it is still all around you," he says. "But when people go to Madang ((the nearest city)), they lose it very quickly." Throughout the country, though, Majnep notes that the younger generation feels shame rather than pride in what their ancestors knew...
What gets me about this whole thing is the hypocrisy of the anti-boring movement. America is a boring and lazy society and there's no shame in that. Doubtless the Japanese will surpass us in most things if they haven't already. So what? It just means that their culture is adaptively superior to ours. To say that Americans are slothful and boring isn't any sort of value judgement. Boring isn't a pejorative term, it's just a state of being, and there should be no stigma attached...
...shame, William Coles remarks at the beginning of Other People's Money, that more plays are not devoted to the business world. Coles, the character who serves as narrator of Jerry Sterner's play, insists that "business-people have a story to tell," one which includes "loyalty, tradition, friendship and, of course, money...
...study from the early 1980s of psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers that found that in several areas, including sexuality, black professionals held more stereotypical negative views of black behavior than their white counterparts. "Some African American professionals look down their nose at another African American who is a 'shame to the race,' " says Johnson-Powell. "They swallow the stereotypes and often will be harder on African Americans than whites will...
...prodigious natural ability. It may be that Daly's swing is too complicated and his game too reliant on intangibles to carry him to the level of his idol Nicklaus. But there is something heroic in the quotable slugger's triumph, and it would be a shame to see him become one of the legion of golf technocrats who threaten to turn the sport into a boring science. There may be a lesson for other pros in the enormous fan response to golf's new Sultan of Swing: people love athletes who shoot for the stars...