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...really irrational that we are willing to tolerate self-deprecating racial humor but not Don Imus? Race doesn’t determine intelligence or character, and it shouldn??t affect a person’s opportunities in life, but this does not mean it can’t alter the offensiveness of speech or writing. Race may be an artificial construct, but so is racist language. The very nature of language dictates that offensiveness is dependent on identity...
...Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who faces ill words and objections virtually everywhere he goes nowadays, encounters a few protesters at his 25-year Harvard Law School reunion (as happened this past weekend), then it shouldn??t be covered any more intensely than the protesters who demonstrate at any of the other numerous Gonzales appearances...
...that awful? You decide. In the end, shouldn??t everyone have to play by the same rules? There are scores of Cherokee people whose ancestors are not listed on the Dawes Rolls. This is because they either refused to sign up, or they were simply missed by the white census-takers. Unfortunately, these Cherokee-by-blood people have never been able to be Cherokee citizens either. But these people know where they came from, who their ancestors are, and they don’t need a Cherokee “blue card” to validate their existence...
...This shouldn??t come as much of a surprise though, given what most Americans think about atheists. In the same Newsweek poll, only 68 percent of respondents said they believe someone can be both atheist and moral, and a mere 38 percent of registered voters said that would even consider voting for a political candidate who is atheist. These startling figures make it clear why many nonbelievers treat the “A” word as a scarlet letter...
...polite when interacting with business professionals. “Please and thank you work very differently in China,” she said. “In cases in English when you would say thank you, you would instead be saying ‘you shouldn??t have,’ or ‘sorry.’” Assistant Professor of Business Administration Regina M. Abrami said that being a foreign woman in China can be disconcerting. “It’s like the third sex—man, woman, and foreign...