Word: westernness
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...project leader had implicitly endorsed the stereotype of the “lazy African.” Her conclusions reeked of the historically racist beliefs that the African lacks discipline, is simple-minded, and relegates his or her fate to outside sources. (Enter everyone from missionaries to hegemonic Western powers right about...
...Rather than pulling a Polman and simply refusing to invest my “intellectual” resources in the NGO, I think I’ve found a possible solution to my current dilemma. For my next project, I’m not teaming up with another Western worker. Instead, I’m helping design curricula for a local high school with a senior who attends...
...Number of Romaniote (Greek Jewish) synagogues that remain in the Western Hemisphere. The lone synagogue is Kehila Kedosha Janina at Broome and Allen Streets...
...Hamas, quite simply, has eclipsed Fatah in leading the Palestinian fight against Israel. It directly controls Gaza, and only the ongoing suppression of free political activity in the West Bank prevents the Islamists from making a far stronger challenge to Abbas on his own turf. The steady stream of Western officials and journalists traveling to Damascus to meet with Hamas leaders is a sure sign that the U.S.-led boycott of the organization has failed to weaken its influence - and, of course, when the Israelis want to discuss a cease-fire or a prisoner exchange, it is with Hamas that...
...Last year, pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko irked the Russian Orthodox leadership with an unsuccessful attempt to unite both patriarchates in Ukraine into one independent church, without involvement from Moscow. Kirill, too, would like to see both branches united, but not in a way that would satisfy Yushchenko - last week, the patriarch called for members of the two churches to unite under his leadership. (See pictures of a diverse group of American teens...