Word: un-american
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...resources of natural-born citizens—primarily, this takes the form of social welfare programs. While it is true that Proposition 300 curbs spending on immigrants, education is unique in that is helps immigrants to assimilate and become productive members of society. It seems like a rather un-American sentiment that proponents of Proposition 300 are not interested in welcoming well-educated immigrants who want to contribute to the public good, and it betrays a position that stems from irrational cultural anxieties instead of from exclusively economic concerns...
Periodically, a clandestine group of faculty members and administrators gathers in the Lamont Forum Room to adjudicate, review, and discuss. They compose the fabled paradigm of Harvard bureaucracy that is only an idea for some—evoking visions of the infamous Un-American Activities Committee—and is all too much of a reality for others. However obscure or real it seems, the Administrative Board of Harvard College (Ad Board) has been striking fear into the hearts of undergraduates since...
...people in the media, several stalwart reporters, but they got overwhelmed because of the fear card that was being played, saying ‘You are either for us or against us, if you’re not for us, you’re unpatriotic, you’re un-American,’ and that scared the shit out of everybody,” he said...
...done away with, as they force our students to interact with lesser countries neglecting their own great heritage. French pastries should be replaced with Boston cream cake, Thai spiced chicken with Memphis spiced chicken, and skim milk with whole milk, all in an effort to cut down on un-American influences...
...curious preoccupation with race, which runs through its history like a varicose vein, half-buried and chronically painful. Just ask disgraced talk-show host Don Imus and the Rutgers University women's basketball team, or any Arab American trying to board a flight. Hapa Girl is a reminder that Americans cannot have too many reminders of the un-American things they do when they're afraid...