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...claim so ridiculous, then, is not the notion that gastronomy could be preserved as a cultural heritage, but the arrogance of their grand call to preserve all of French cuisine. The category “French cuisine” is ambiguous to the point of being meaningless. If people within France can hardly agree on what constitutes traditional French cuisine, a committee can hardly be expected to decide...
...dealing so directly with issues of language in his work, what Xu quite ironically does is address the issue of cultural translation as well. He gives power to the belief that issues of relatability to Western audiences are not insurmountable, and in fact have cultural precedent within China. Standard Chinese is a Chinese that is at once familiar and foreign to many—there are likely hundreds of millions of Chinese who speak Chinese dialects at home or even exclusively and deal with issues of cross-cultural translation everyday...
Davis’s piece of plywood is bordered by mahogany and covered with red glass to elevate the value of the imagery. Davis says that this frame is meant to comment on conformity within society. “Consumer culture has people so framed because the particular thing we want is first made but then sold to us in a particular context—a concept then chosen by the company...
...Their importance to the bailout measure is a reflection of the Blue Dogs' growing clout within the Democratic Party. Decades ago, when the South was thick with Democrats, there was a saying that Southern Dems were so loyal they're rather vote for a yellow dog than a Republican. As the party moved to the left, forcing moderates like Billy Tauzin and Jimmy Hayes (both former Blue Dog leaders) to switch parties, one member joked that the remaining moderates had been choked blue by the left - thus rechristening the group Blue Dogs. For a while their numbers dwindled...
...movement from taking power. But the Islamists remain powerful, and the still violent stalemate clouds any prospect of restoring law and order onshore. Although the pirates lack the quays to take the tanks ashore, and their clan affiliations make connections to the Islamists unlikely, the U.S.S. Howard sailed to within three miles of the Faina to ensure that the tanks did not fall into Islamist hands...