Word: southerners
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...born on April 24, 1970 in China and was raised in Hong Kong. He earned both his undergraduate and his master's degrees at the Chinese University in Hong Kong, and enrolled in the PhD chemistry program at the University of Southern California...
ARLES, France: Died: Jeanne Calment, 122 years old and officially the planet's oldest human being, at her retirement home in the southern French town of Arles. Born on February 21, 1875, she knew Vincent Van Gogh as a girl and was already in her 40's at the time of World War I. A genetic marvel who outlived her only child and grandchild, Calment was riding her bicycle around town well into her 11th decade. She became the subject of considerable media attention two years ago around the time of her 120's birthday, releasing a "rap" record...
Other entities that once made the region unique have fallen by the wayside all over the South. Friends and relatives who used to do their banking at BankSouth or Citizens and Southern (known as C&S) must now bank at Nations Bank or Sun-Trust, larger banks that have merged with the more local banks. Grocery stores such as Piggly-Wiggly have been replaced by larger chains like Publix. Though changes in the name of the place where you bank or buy your groceries may seem trivial, I think they are part of a larger, unfortunate trend--the homogenization...
Though I sometimes feel stifled by aspects of Southern culture--such as feeling that I have to have my hair and makeup done whenever I leave the house--all in all, I have to say that I have come to love and appreciate the culture of the South. Though as a Southerner I have to put up with my share of jokes about inbreeding and rednecks and even the half-joking remark made by a Harvard professor about people in the South eating dirt, I cannot think of another region in the United States where I would have preferred...
Unfortunately, the South is losing much of what makes it unique. Until recently, I did not really notice or care about the demise of Southern culture. But while I was not paying attention, it was slowly deteriorating around...