Word: symbolic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latest groups of immigrants -- as with the settlers in Steinbeck country -- few of the stereotypes apply: most of the state's Hispanics and Asians, not notably self- indulgent, are a long way from hydrotherapy classes or from sleeping with their therapists. The Filipino punk joint may be a symbol of the latest form of California strangeness -- polyglot multiculturalism -- but it hardly seems out of place in a state where tire stores are built in the shape of Mayan temples and movies are screened in a replica of a palace at Thebes...
...Luther King hospital in Watts, where nearly 9 out of 10 babies born are Hispanic. As the hospital comes to serve a more diverse community, Hispanic leaders have demanded more of the health-care jobs. But blacks view the facility, built after the Watts riots in 1965, as a symbol of their hard-fought struggle for civil rights. Says Eugene Grigsby III, acting director of UCLA's Center for Afro-American Studies: "The feeling is we've been left out so long, now these new kids on the block who haven't paid their dues, who haven't fought...
...America is the land where the world goes in search of miracles and redemption, California is the land where Americans go. It is America's America, the symbol of raw hope and brave (even foolish) invention, where ancient traditions and inhibitions are abandoned at the border. Its peculiar culture squirts out -- on film and menus and pages and television beams -- the trends and tastes that sweep the rest of the country, and then the rest of the world. If California broke off and dissolved in salt water, America would lose its seasoning...
...coalition covering as much as 80% of local public opinion. In exclusive Laguna Beach last fall, residents voted to tax themselves $20 million to start buying an adjoining canyon before it could be developed. Says city council member Robert Gentry: "In Southern California, open space is becoming the symbol of quality of life. And the only way people have of limiting the rapid urbanization of land...
...Jews, we are especially sensitive to the fact that the pink triangle was the symbol that the Nazis used during the Holocaust to identify gays; we can only shudder to think of what our reactions to an exploding Star of David might...