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...Singapore, for example, a stranger stopped Sherry on the street. "You're an American," he said. "I can tell by the suit. I've got one very much like it." A businessman, when Sherry visited his home, proudly showed a collection of American neckties. In some circles, it is a mark of distinction and a sure way to social acceptance to carry American cigarettes, available on the black market at some 60? a pack...
...Stranger in the House. One of the few citizens of Loudun who seemed beyond suspicion of any intrigue was slim, soft-spoken Marie Besnard, a matron of 53, who owned six houses in the town, the local White Horse inn, and a number of thriving stud farms. Marie had acquired property the easy way through the deaths of a succession of relatives and her purse strings were always loosened when M. le Curé came to call with a worthy charity in mind. Marie, said the people of Loudun, was "the only woman in town who could go to communion...
...Irrational fear of strangers is a characteristic shared by a majority of the English," says Gorer. "In those portions of Asia and Africa . . . governed by England many of the native elites . . . were granted formal equality, but practically never social equality, typified in most areas by . . . social clubs. This exclusion appears to have distressed and humiliated the native elites out of all proportion to a rational assessment of the amenities foregone. [But British exclusiveness was] 'race prejudice' only to the extent that 'race' made the strangeness of" the stranger more evident...
...been eying the prosperous establishment of U.S. Catholicism like down-at-heel gentry looking over a forgotten cousin who has struck it rich. Surveying its growth, Novelist Evelyn Waugh found it, for his English taste, a bit too Irish: "In New York on St. Patrick's Day . . . the stranger might well suppose that Catholicism was a tribal cult." Last week, U.S. Catholic readers of the Parisian daily Le Monde got a chance to see themselves through the unblinking eyes of a Frenchman...
...German technicians gathered in the long, yellow-walled conference hall were talking about the same thing: Why did I come here? Said a heavy-machinery expert from Hamburg: "I want to know why a Christian of one faith feels like a stranger in the church of another. If there is but one God, why must we worship Him in different ways?" A trade unionist from Essen asked whether "the churches can do anything to help bridge the gap between employer and employee." A shutter designer from the Rolleiflex factory in Braunschweig asked: "Why must so many community pastors be stuffy...