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ellauri222.html on line 359: The foremost theme in The Adventures of Augie March is the search for identity. Unsure of what he wants from life, Augie is pulled along into the schemes of friends and strangers, trying on different identities and learning about the world through jobs ranging from union organizer to eagle trainer to book thief. His path seems random, but as Augie notes, quoting the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, “a man’s character is his fate.” As Augie goes through life, knocking on various doors, these doors of fate open up for him as if by random, but the knocks are unquestionably his own. In the end of the novel, Augie defines his identity as a “Columbus of those near-at-hand,” whose purpose in life is to knock some eggs. Augie notes that “various jobs” are the Rosetta stone, or key, to his entire life. Americans define themselves by their work (having no roots, family or land to stick to), and Augie is a sort of vagabond, trying on different identities as he goes along. Unwilling to limit himself by specializing in any one area, Augie drifts from job to job. He becomes a handbill-distributor, a paperboy, a Woolworth’s stocker, a newsstand clerk, a trinket-seller, a Christmas helper at a department store, a flower delivery boy, a butler, a clerk at fine department stores, a paint salesman, a dog groomer, a book thief, a coal yard worker, a housing inspector, a union organizer, an eagle-trainer, a gambler, a literary researcher, a business machine salesman, a merchant marine, and ultimately an importer-exporter working in wartime Europe. Augie’s job changing is emblematic of the social mobility that is so quintessentially American. Augie is the American Everyman, continually reinventing himself, like Donald Duck. Olemme kaikki oman onnemme Akuja, joopa joo. Yrmf, olet tainnut mainita. You are telling me!
ellauri226.html on line 475: enjoy similar all-American white immigrant lifestyles. When new Hispanic groups and African Americans moved beyond the South Bronx, seeking to avoid the crime and drug use that had already seized the South Bronx, however, they brought their crummy lifestyles along. These cultural peculiarities seemed to clash with those that were in place with the older white immigrants, which only exacerbated the suspicions many whites already had regarding the perceived connection between race and crime rates.
ellauri226.html on line 527: Jacque Smith Bonneau moved to the South Bronx in the mid-1940s as part of the first major migration of African Americans to the borough and, like many of the white residents interviewed, commented on the safety of The Bronx in the 1950s and spoke of leaving the apartment door open on warm days, which created fine opportunities for petty crime for the sootyfaced poorer folks.
ellauri240.html on line 107: Many Hmong refugees settled in the United States after the Vietnam War. Beginning in December 1975, the first Hmong refugees arrived in the U.S., mainly from refugee camps in Thailand; however, only 3,466 were granted asylum at that time under the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975. In May 1976, another 11,000 were allowed to enter the United States, and by 1978 some 30,000 Hmong people had immigrated. This first wave was made up predominantly of men directly associated with General Vang Pao's secret army. The Hmong allied with the French against the Communists during the whole Indochina War and with the Americans during the whole Vietnam War, hoping to resist communist Viêt Minh control. So here was the thanx for their efforts.
ellauri247.html on line 347: Americans had no more right to govern themselves than the Cornish, and "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?" The French and Indian War was a conflict between "two robbers" of Native American lands, and that neither deserved to live there.
ellauri248.html on line 347: There was also an allotment process starting in the Dawes Act of 1887 until 1934. This was to force more land from Native people. The ostensible reason was to make them individual landholders and thus “Americanized” members of a capitalist system. It was felt this would “solve” the “Indian problem”. In short that it would make them no longer part of the ethnic communities they were members of. However the main push to “solve” the “problem” was by Anglo-Americans who wanted to take that land. Thus land was distributed to tribal members and the “surplus” was given or sold at a cut rate to White Americans or turned into National Forests and Parks or military bases. Land owned by Native Americans decreased from 138 million acres in 1887 to 48 million acres in 1934. They lost 2/3s of their treaty land base. About 90,000 Native Americans were made landless.
ellauri269.html on line 581: The Tortollans are essentially old Jewish grandparents, yes. That’s not exactly the same situation, though. And goblins, historically? Yes. But Blizzard have actually made a clear effort to distinguish the WoW goblins from that history and made them into, well… Steampunk Italian-Americans.
ellauri270.html on line 595: Some have criticized Brandeis for evading issues related to African-Americans, as he did not author a single opinion on any cases about race during his twenty-three year tenure, and consistently voted with the court majority including in support of racial segregation.
ellauri284.html on line 150: In 2021, there were over 29 thousand murders reported across India. Furthermore, more than 55 thousand attempted murder cases were filled in the country that year. Success rate: 34%. The US has experienced its largest-ever recorded annual increase in murders, according to new statistics from the FBI, with the national murder rate rising nearly 30% in 2020 – the biggest jump in six decades. Nearly 5,000 more Americans were murdered across the country last year than the year before. At least 77% of the murders were committed with firearms, according to the new government estimates.
ellauri299.html on line 181: For over a decade, the nation has not made any real progress in reducing the number of Americans at risk of literal homelessness. Despite decreasing trends in people living doubled up overall, the rise in severe housing cost numbers are concerning. Even more troubling are the risks that inflation rising to a 40-year high in 2022, expiring eviction moratoria, and fading Emergency Rental Assistance dollars pose to those at risk of experiencing homelessness.
ellauri299.html on line 527: Grisham ihmelettää ompasutena: What broke in our vast system of public assistance to allow Americans to become so poor they lived under bridges?
ellauri299.html on line 549: According to a 2017 academic study by MIT economist Peter Temin, Americans trapped in poverty live in conditions rivaling the developing world, and are forced to contend with substandard education, dilapidated housing, and few stable employment opportunities, not to mention drugs and hookworms.
ellauri299.html on line 552: Some 12 million Americans live with diseases associated with extreme poverty.
ellauri310.html on line 956: A.K.A, burgers. On this day, no burger will be left unflipped. Americans beware, the day of the grill is comming.
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Do Europeans work as hard as Americans?
ellauri313.html on line 473: Most Americans are not entirely comfortable with the concept of "cool," or businesslike, negotiations in an atmosphere of some degree of physical threat or coercion. For the most part, they do not consciously assign to force any rational or reasonable role in "ordinary" negotiations. In the recent past (except in the case of "just" revolutions), we have tended to the view that only a criminal or a sick or insane person initiates the use of force. Therefore, we are inclined to believe that someone who uses force is not only our enemy, but an enemy of humanity—an outlaw who deserves extermination, imprisonment, or medical constraint and treatment. The "crusade," and even an initial pacifism as well, comes more naturally to Americans than the kind of cool, restrained, and moderate willingness to threaten or use force that will be suggested in this book.
ellauri316.html on line 305: Lähde: Who's who among Finnish-Americans: A biographical directory of persons of Finnish descent who have made noteworthy contributions to the pattern of American life. Planning committee: Oskari Tokoi, John Suominen, Henry Askeli. Fitchburg, Mass.: Raivoaja Publishing Company, 1949
ellauri316.html on line 824: “The Germans know, as many Americans do not, that the war was won at Stalingrad and that 27 million Soviet citizens died in the fight against the Wehrmacht,” Neiman told ARTnews. “Among decent Germans who want to acknowledge their country’s crimes, there is a strong sense of guilt for the war against the Russians.”
ellauri316.html on line 842: Here, again, Vlasov was unlucky. He surrendered to the United States, but the Americans turned him over to the Soviets. Vlasov was taken to Moscow, where he was imprisoned and ultimately executed.
ellauri321.html on line 151: Americans are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigour, and industry which began long since in the east; they will finish the great circle. The Americans were once scattered all over Europe;
ellauri321.html on line 170: As I have endeavoured to shew you how Europeans become Americans; it may not be disagreeable to shew you likewise how the various Christian sects introduced, wear out, and how religious indifference becomes prevalent. When any considerable number of a particular sect happen to dwell contiguous to each other, they immediately erect a temple, and there worship the Divinity agreeably to 62 their own peculiar ideas. Nobody disturbs them. If any new sect springs up in Europe, it may happen that many of its professors will come and settle in America. As they bring their zeal with them, they are at liberty to make proselytes if they can, and to build a meeting and to follow the dictates of their consciences; for neither the government nor any other power interferes. If they are peaceable subjects, and are industrious, what is it to their neighbours how and in what manner they think fit to address their prayers to the Supreme Being? But if the sectaries are not settled close together, if they are mixed with other denominations, their zeal will cool for want of fuel, and will be extinguished in a little time. Then the Americans become as to religion, what they are as to country, allied to all. In them the name of Englishman, Frenchman, and European is lost, and in like manner, the strict modes of Christianity as practised in Europe are lost also.
ellauri321.html on line 173: Thus all sects are mixed as well as all nations; thus religious indifference is imperceptibly disseminated from one end of the continent to the other; which is at present one of the strongest characteristics of the Americans. Buahaha sure as hell.
ellauri321.html on line 200: Andrew, what step do you intend to take in order to become rich? Have you brought any money with you, Andrew? I'll tell you what I intend to do; I'll send you to my house, where you shall stay two or three weeks, there you must exercise yourself with the axe, that is the principal tool the Americans want, and particularly the back-settlers. Can your wife spin? Well then as soon as you are able to handle the axe, you shall go and live with Mr. P. R. a particular friend of mine, who will give you four dollars per month, for the first six, and the usual price of five as long as you remain with him. I shall place your wife in another house, where she shall receive half a dollar a week for spinning; and your son a dollar a month to drive the team.
ellauri321.html on line 287: A war can last be over for generations before the whole truth gets out. For example, many Americans don’t know the U.S. Army NEVER defeated the Seminoles.
ellauri324.html on line 250: Why is America in such poor shape, with its crumbling roads, crappy power distribution, and pitiful public transport systems? It is because Americans have been propagandized for decades into believing that “liberty” is the ultimate virtue, and this “liberty” is so valuable that it justifies the cost of living as a selfish asshole under a dysfunctional government. “Raise taxes to pay for public infrastructure?” “Jeez Louise; over my dead body! Taxation is theft, government is bad!” For much of the 20th century, America defined itself against the collectivist USSR, and the fatuous argument was made that since everything was under the control of the state in the USSR, the US government should do as little as possible, apart from outspending the evil Commies in national defense.
ellauri324.html on line 266: If the author of the question long one is wealthy and well traveled he would know that Europe and Asia had many technological advances long before USA did or will ever have such as TGV or bullet trains for example. After spending time in Europe and Asia it was decades later I saw many of these advances here to buy or experience. Japanese cars nearly sunk USA automakers. Why didn’t the corp heads heed anything. TGV in France and Japan and other nations is unrivaled and we have not even one such train here. Tankless water heaters, available in Asia and Europe decades before here. Roads and other infrastructure also superior. My research shows that Americans were so busy creating totalitarian policies like redlining and private cars and pools and expressways removed entire neighborhoods of blacks to create all white suburbs that they were unconcerned with advances that would unite people. Sure everywhere are class societies but it’s a whole different level here. The homeless situation is opening eyes in this country and many things are borne out of a highly segregated society where it’s expensive to live in certain cities and suburbs and the rest be damned. Obviously California has destroyed itself from within. The liberals there and other states are the most class and race conscious than any other people on earth. This blind spot is like a beacon. A prism that breaks down social order. The wealthy libs have to accept their roles in American destruction. It will get worse long before it improves. [Redlining is an illegal practice in which lenders avoid providing credit services to individuals living in or seeking to live in, communities of color because of the race, color, or national origin of the residents in those communities.]
ellauri324.html on line 485: like that in Europe. We should start treating Americans
ellauri324.html on line 503: of maintenace for the infrastructure. I thought Americans
ellauri324.html on line 573: side. People in bars can be fantastically noisy. Americans shout. One time
ellauri324.html on line 620: thought Americans loved to drive? So why not spend some
ellauri324.html on line 676: Americans have when seeing a friendlier, cleaner, and
ellauri324.html on line 796: for a long time, Americans still did write paper cheques.
ellauri327.html on line 411: Time journalists said that after Zelensky’s visit to the United States, they returned with him to Kyiv to try to understand how he would respond to signals received from the Americans, including persistent calls to fight corruption and antisemitism.
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Lembergissä lännessä ollaan ydinukrainalaisia. Venäjästä ei ole tietoa. No Lemberg kuuluikin Saxalle tai Puolalle suuren isänmaallisen sodan voittoon saakka. 99% of Americans speak English. But that, somehow does not make them Englishmen... A good point!
ellauri339.html on line 591: The United States controls how the war in the Ukraine proceeds and always has. Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said that it was the Americans who scuttled any chance of peace in Ukraine as early as March 2022, soon after the war began. “The only people who could resolve the war over Ukraine are the Americans. During the peace talks in March 2022 in Istanbul, Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to. They had to coordinate everything they talked about with the Americans first. However, nothing eventually happened. My impression is that nothing could happen because everything was decided in Washington.”
ellauri339.html on line 601: Americans will be forgiven if they never hear this bad news, never mind be surprised by it if they did. The narrative which drove sports teams to wear blue and yellow patches and E Street Band member Steve Van Zandt to paint his guitar the Ukrainian colors was simple. Amidst a flood of propaganda, the story was always the same: Ukraine was pushing back the Russians with weapons provided by a broad range of agreeable NATO benefactors. Between Ukrainian jet fighter aces with improbable kill ratios to patriotic female sniper teams with improbable hair and makeup, Russia was losing. It would be a difficult but noble slog for “as long as it takes” to drive the Russians out.
ellauri339.html on line 612: Americans, both the people and their government, distracted by the greatest propaganda tools ever imagined (the media), seem capable of focusing on only one bright shiny object at a time. In the case of wars, a new bright shiny object must include two clear sides, one good and one pure evil, with one preferably an underdog, daily combat footage which can be obtained without too much danger, and a football game-like progression across a map that is easy to follow. It should not be boring. Ukraine was such a conflict and enjoyed almost a full two-year run.
ellauri339.html on line 618: Nevertheless, the fickle attention of America shifted to the Middle East just as things started to look more and more like static WWI trench warfare in Ukraine. It was a hard act to follow, but something always follows nonetheless (the same calculus works for natural disasters and mass shootings, which are only as mediagenic-good as the next one coming.) Over 41 percent of Americans now say the U.S. is doing too much to help Kiev. That’s a significant change from just three months ago when only 24 percent of Americans said they felt that way.
ellauri370.html on line 132: Heiser argues that the purpose of the herem is to also prevent the physical corruption of the Israelites by nephilim, the fallen angel offspring of sons of God and good looking willing Esthers. The Israeli messianic and political movement Gush Emunim considered the Palestinians to be Canaanites or Amalekites, and suggested that implied a duty to make merciless war against Arabs who reject Jewish sovereignty European Jews who migrated to Palestine relied on the biblical ideology of conquest and extermination, and considered the Arabs to be Canaanites. Scholar Arthur Grenke claims that the view of war expressed in Deuteronomy contributed to the destruction of Native Americans and to the destruction of European Jewry. Jewish fundamentalists in Israel, such as Shlomo Aviner, consider the Palestinians to be like biblical Canaanites, and that some fundamentalist leaders suggest that they "must be prepared to destroy" the Palestinians if the Palestinians do not leave the land.
ellauri370.html on line 185: In addition, contrary to claims that he was an environmentalist, Jackson was almost as much a "whore for logging companies" as for Boeing, according Carsten Lien's book Olympic Battleground. After his death, critics pointed to Jackson's support for Japanese American internment camps during World War II as a reason to protest the placement of his bust at the University of Washington. Jackson was both an enthusiastic defender of the evacuation and a staunch proponent of the campaign to keep the Japanese-Americans from returning to the Pacific Coast after the war. Jackson died at 71. Jackson's death was greatly mourned. Jackson was proof of the old belief in the Judaic tradition that at any moment in history goodness in the world (olam) is preserved (tikkum) by the deeds of 36 just men who do not know that this is the role the Lord has given them. Scoop Jackson was one of those men.
ellauri374.html on line 210: EU equivalents include the German: haberfeldtreiben and German: katzenmusik, Italian: scampanate, Spanish cacerolada, (also cacerolazo or cacerolada) and of course French charivari. Americans of course were not that nasty. In a North American charivari participants might throw the culprits into horse tanks or force them to buy candy bars for the crowd. "All in fun – it was just a shiveree, you know, and nobody got mad about it. At least not very mad." In music, Charivari would later be taken up by composers of the French Baroque tradition as a 'rustic' or 'pastoral' character piece. In Samuel Butler´s Hudibras, the central character encounters a skimmington in a scene notably illustrated by William Hogarth. In the 1966 film El Dorado, Cole Thorton (John Wayne) tells Mississippi (James Caan) that they were unable to re-enter the saloon they just left because the "shivaree" (i.e., the fight they had with other bar patrons) "wore out our welcome".
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Why are Europeans not as fat as Americans when Europeans eat white bread and pasta and butter all the time?
ellauri390.html on line 66: The Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians is descended from a group of Mohicans (variously known as Mahikan, Housatonic and River Indians; the ancestral name Muh-he-con-ne-ok means “people of the waters that are never still”) and a band of the Delaware Indians known as the Munsee. The Mohicans and the Delaware, closely related in customs and traditions, originally inhabited large portions of what is now the northeastern United States. In 1734, a small group of Mohicans established a village near Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where they began to assimilate with the palefaces, but were nonetheless driven out by Euro-Americans. In 1785 they founded “New Stockbridge” in upper New York State at the invitation of the Oneida Indians. Their new home, however, was on timber land sought after by non-Indian settlers.
ellauri392.html on line 824: How can one purport to deal with modernist literature, with nary a mention of any of the following: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, HD (Hilda Doolittle), Anais Nin, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Robert Frost, James Joyce, Virginia Wolfe, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, or Gertrude Stein? Exclusively anglo-saxon types, mainly Americans.
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Why are some Americans so opposed to universal healthcare?
ellauri402.html on line 680: One of the reasons Americans are against “free” healthcare is because they believe that what they pay for healthcare is actually what it costs. “Why should I pay $30,000 for someone else to give birth?” The answer of course is you wouldn’t, you would contribute to the $3000 – $5000 that it really costs. When I had a small carcinoma removed at a private clinic, paid for by the NHS of course, the Doctor told me that I would have paid £600 privately. What would that cost in the US? Not your co-pay or whatever it’s called, but the actual bill? Thousands I’d guess. If Americans understood how much they’re being shafted, ($3k for an ambulance? Really?) they would see that Universal healthcare would be far cheaper than they could possibly imagine. And no, the Doctors would still be paid well, because it’s the insurance companies and hospitals taking all the extra cash you pay. A copayment or copay is a fixed amount for a covered service, paid by a patient to the provider of service before receiving the service. Eli omavastuu, jolla vakuutusyhtiöt pitää korvauxenhakijat ruodussa.
ellauri402.html on line 682: Edit: I’ve read a lot of comments to this, mainly saying that the American people want UH, but there are too many powerful lobbyists against it. So why are they not being fought? The Government exists to serve the people surely? If it doesn’t do that, then it’s a corrupt system that needs reforming. A lot of Americans talk about bringing “Freedom” to the rest of the world, why not start with your own country?
ellauri402.html on line 690: Another reason is many do not believe in paying for insurance which is subsidizing a poor person who happens to get sick and needs urgent medical care. They would rather the person die or get seriously sick instead of getting the care they need. NHS and Canada do not believe in throwing poor and sick people under a bus while Americans do.
ellauri413.html on line 654: Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
ellauri413.html on line 656: And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people.
ellauri421.html on line 185: In all, the Americans had taken 9,831 casualties and taken 38,000 prisoners, more than 20,000 of which were combat troops, Blumenson says, noting that some Germans had prepared for capture by shaving, washing, putting on clean uniforms, and packing suitcases. As expected, the Germans had totally wrecked the port, destroying anything that might have been of use to the Allies. The Americans had helped, demolishing the area with bombs and shells, including firebombs that incinerated almost every building in downtown Brest.
ellauri424.html on line 282: Bianca Melendez koittaa pistää väliin: The problem is that you people need to recognize that America was built on indigenous land and the land will never belong to Americans who think they have some right to it… Ya'll don't. Period. Humble yourselves. If you have a prob with too many foreigners coming in.. take it up with your gov foreign policy.. not on people just trying to get by when you have no more rights then they to the land.
ellauri425.html on line 521: Last year, the German economy shrank; this year, it will scarcely grow, in part because of shortages of affordable fossil fuels. Germans pay four times what Americans on average do for electricity. Fortunately, the Trump administration has promised an oil and natural gas renaissance, hoping to expand both production and exports with envisioned new pipelines and liquefied natural gas terminals.
ellauri425.html on line 525: Archie Goodwin: The world has now seen the ‘Trump Effect’ and 'Musk Buffet' on full display. They vote for cheaper energy and fewer regulations. Less sanctions, less money wasted on the Malo-Russian clown. Europeans and Americans alike want more meritocracy and fewer fixations on race and gender.
ellauri425.html on line 527: In the chaos of the postmodern 21st century, Europe and the United States nevertheless are still likely to share the same enemies and friends. Both resent the asymmetrical Chinese approach to global commerce, based on a mercantilism that would never allow Europe and the United States to treat China as it does both. The Europeans and the Americans are both worried about a vastly expanding conventional and nuclear Chinese military. Neither wants Iran to develop nuclear-tipped missiles with ranges to hit the capitals of both. They do not want Russian President Vladimir Putin to recreate the former Soviet Union’s borders.
ellauri425.html on line 555: Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was also asked by Kiev to play a role in mediating the Istanbul talks, and he provides the same account. Schröder says that “nothing could happen because everything else was decided in Washington… [T]he Ukrainians did not agree to peace because they were not allowed to. They first had to ask the Americans about everything they discussed.”
ellauri425.html on line 563: Ruch mourns that “We had the opportunity to stop a war…. So, why did all these people die? And this really got to me. I found that there was something deeply immoral in the decisions that were taken in London, in Washington, in Kiev… because we had a ceasefire close at hand, and then it’s the Americans, with their British allies, who said no.”
ellauri426.html on line 49: “I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. And this is a dangerous concern. And that’s the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra-wealthy people. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. “They (the good guy democrats) didn’t punish the wealthy. They just made the wealthy play by the rules everybody else had to. Workers wanted rights to earn their fair share. They were dealt into the deal, and it helped put us on a path to building the largest middle class and the most prosperous century any nation in the world has ever seen. We’ve got to do that again. I’m equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country, as well. “Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, enabling the abuse of power. The free press is crumbling, editors are disappearing.
ellauri433.html on line 240: After white supremacist protesters at the 2017 Unite The Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia were heard chanting "You will not replace us" and "Jews will not replace us," Camus stated that he did not support Nazis or violence "as such", but that he could understand why white Americans felt angry about being replaced, and that he approved of the sentiment. Remaining red Indians can't help feeling Schadenfreude. Camus's X account was reactivated in January 2023 thanks to a policy of general amnesty announced by Twitter's new owner Elon Musk.
ellauri434.html on line 368: Mamma Trollopen puoliso oli vuodesta 1809 asianajaja Thomas A. Trollope, joka ajautui taloudellisiin vaikeuksiin. Sen jälkeen Trollopen perhe muutti 1827 Yhdysvaltoihin Cincinnatiin, missä hänen ponnistelunsa perheen elättämiseksi eivät tuottaneet tulosta. Hän palasi Englantiin, jossa hän sai huomiota julkaisemallaan kirjalla Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), jossa hän kuvasi aihetta kielteisesti liioitellen.
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ellauri434.html on line 376: Nashobasta on lyhyt kuvaus Frances Trollopen vuonna 1832 julkaisemassa kirjassa Domestic Manners of the Americans . Hän vieraili Nashobassa Wrightin kanssa vuonna 1827 ja asui Yhdysvalloissa muutaman vuoden. Hänen työnsä kritisoi amerikkalaista yhteiskuntaa sen kiillottomuuden vuoksi. Hän ajatteli, että Nashoban asukkailla ei ollut sekä riittäviä elintarvikkeita että ylellisyyksiä.
ellauri444.html on line 221: "I thought the British class system was a subject of humour, but Iʼm not a Marxist ... Iʼve always been a capitalist, right from when I was a small child and I saw the Americans over here and I found I could have a conversation with an American and find greater accord with them about the importance of getting rich than I could with my parents." Len subscribes to the bourgeois devil take the hindmost philosophy.
ellauri449.html on line 277: Scott Adams on vanha kalju suippopää jonka poliittiset mielipiteet on samaa maata kuin sen sarjakuva. Scott Adams is known for his controversial political views, particularly his support for former President Donald Trump and his criticism of "woke" culture. Adams’ comic-strip distributor and many of its subscriber newspapers dropped him following his declaration that Black Americans are a hate group.
ellauri456.html on line 1404: 1955 Doris joutui vankilaan kun ei mennyt atomipommisuojaan. Hän kirjoitti turhautuneena päiväkirjaansa: "Minulla ei ole valtaa hillitä esimerkiksi kannabiksen polttamista, seksuaalista ristiinsuihkimista tai yksinäisiä syntejä." In 1970, at the height of American participation in the Vietnam War, she described Ho Chi Minh as "a man of vision, as a patriot, a rebel against foreign invaders. But oh, God, what are all these Americans doing all over the world so far from our own shores?"
ellauri466.html on line 56: Puolalaiset haukkuivat ukrainalaisia reptiileixi. Saxalaiset puolalaisia nautakarjaxi. Chinese think Americans are the worst of the foreign devils. Charles Lamb inhosi skotteja, juutalaisia, nekruja ja kveekareita. An antisemitist hates jews more than absolutely necessary.
ellauri466.html on line 275: The first practical intelligence test, the Binet-Simon Intelligence Test, was developed between 1905 and 1908 by Alfred Binet and Théodore Simon in France for school placement of children. Binet warned that results from his test should not be assumed to measure innate intelligence or used to label individuals permanently. Binet's test was translated into English and revised in 1916 by Lewis Terman (who introduced IQ scoring for the test results) and published under the name Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales. In 1916 Terman wrote that Mexican-Americans, African-Americans, and Native Americans have a mental "dullness [that] seems to be racial, or at least inherent in the family stocks from which they come." Trust anglo-saxon cretins to take a French idea and turn it into something really evil.
ellauri466.html on line 277: Based on Army data, prominent psychologists and eugenicists such as Henry H. Goddard, Harry H. Laughlin, and Princeton professor Carl Brigham wrote that people from southern and eastern Europe were less intelligent than native-born Americans or immigrants from the Nordic countries, and that black Americans were less intelligent than white Americans.
ellauri466.html on line 283: Nonetheless, a powerful eugenics and segregation lobby funded largely by textile-magnate Wickliffe Draper continued to use intelligence studies as an argument for eugenics, segregation, and anti-immigration legislation. Wickliffe Preston Draper (1891–1972) was an American owner of Draper Looms textile and textile machinery manufacturers, who descended from generations of prominent Americans. He was an activist like Greta Thunberg. He was an ardent eugenicist and lifelong advocate of strict racial segregation. In 1937, he founded the Pioneer Fund for eugenics and heredity research; he later became its principal benefactor.
ellauri468.html on line 116: Sadly, the name of Bernard Werber is little-known to the English speaker. For some reason, one of the best-selling European novelists is largely not translated into English; neither in England nor in the United States. Maybe because he's French. For face it, for hundreds of years the English have hated the French, and for dozens of years, the Americans have done so as well. And it's sad, really, since among the beret-wearing mime-watching frog-eating America-hating snobs, you find someone like Werber, an intelligent, creative, imaginative, thoughtful, incredible author. Oh, and he is Jewish. So, faithful reader, learn French. Or German, or Russian, or any other language that Werber has been translated to. Read "The Empire of Angels". Read "We the Gods". And admit that not all French people are bad. Especially if they are Jewish. Verdict: Jew.
ellauri469.html on line 82: A 2013 survey showed that about half of Americans reported eating at fast food (FF) restaurants at least weekly, and ∼80% of adults went to FF restaurants at least once per month. FF is one of the major components of Americans' diet, as about 11% of their calories are derived from fast food consumption among adults.
ellauri469.html on line 87: Low-income and food-insecure people consume more FF owing in part to lack of access to money to buy healthy and affordable and perceived barriers of higher prices for healthy foods and lower prices for FF, which also contributes to sustaining FF as a major contributor to Americans' diets. A systematic review found that FF restaurants are more prevalent in low-income areas compared with middle- to higher-income areas and in areas with higher concentrations of ethnic minority groups compared with Armenioids and Caucasians.
ellauri469.html on line 90: Impulsive individuals prefer convenience meals more than anal retentive individuals, and those WHO can read food labels are more likely to consume a healthy diet. Two thirds of Americans thought the food served at FF restaurants is not good for them, but they like the cages provided for their kids.
ellauri469.html on line 92: Americans' typical food shopping behaviors by car may lead them to feel no barriers to visiting relatively faraway FF restaurants. A study found that Americans travel an average of 2.6 miles from home to food establishments. Overweight/obese people can be more vulnerable to the FF availability in their neighborhood than others regarding their FFC. Overweight/obese children WHO can't drive had a sensitivity to FF availability (indicated by FF restaurant density) influencing their FFC compared with non-overweight children.
ellauri471.html on line 338: Mr. Buckley knows a lot about London but not quite enough. Of course, this is always a trap for the unwary. Americans set their novels in England (and English writers in America) at their peril. It is not just a matter of Britspeak and Britscene, at both of which Mr. Buckley is rather good - though Prime Minister Brogan would not call autumn the fall, and where, oh where, is Kensington Park? - but as if all that were not enough for him to contend with, he needs must rush headlong from the treacherous ground of English manners into the morass of English titles and the English educational system. The traitor Bertram Heath attends until the age of 9 ''a little grammar school'' that in the 1930's has a headmistress. What can Mr. Buckley mean? A prep school? A dame-school?
xxx/ellauri068.html on line 115: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is a 2006 British-American mockumentary comedy film directed by Larry Charles and starring Sacha Baron Cohen. Baron Cohen stars as Borat Sagdiyev, a fictitious Kazakhstani journalist who travels through the United States to make a documentary which features real-life interactions with Americans. Much of the film features unscripted vignettes of Borat interviewing and interacting with real-life Americans who believe he is a foreigner with little or no understanding of American customs. It is the second of four films built around Baron Cohen's characters from Da Ali G Show (2000–2004): the first, Ali G Indahouse, was released in 2002, and featured a cameo by Borat; the third, Brüno, was released in 2009; and the sequel to Borat, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, was released in 2020.
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 439: Incentive based economics works spectacularly well and is the reason that Americans in the 2000s are two to three times better off than they were in 1980. Nothing to do with lucrative wars in Asia, WTC deals or other steals.
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 441: And more recently incentive based economics introduced in 2017 is the reason that Americans coming in to 2020 had lower unemployment than all other economics predicted possible, with wages starting to grow rapidly again, and the reason that Americans fared better economically than any other part of the world under the ravages of the COVID pandemic. (Admittedly, it helped a lot that a bigger number of poor shits died of it.)
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 545: But, just as many economists predicted, slashing individual, corporate and estate tax rates was mostly a windfall for big corporations and wealthy Americans. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act did not pay for itself, failed to stimulate long-term growth and did not lead to sustained business investments.
xxx/ellauri085.html on line 573: Though the pandemic cost tens of millions of Americans their jobs and sent the U.S. economy into a tailspin, many at the top of the income distribution have seen their wealth skyrocket. The nation’s 651 billionaires saw their net worth spike by more than $1 trillion during the first nine months of the pandemic, according to Americans for Tax Fairness, a liberal group advocating for higher taxes on the wealthy.
xxx/ellauri091.html on line 663: locals know how to lick up to Americans. They actually offered to extradite Assange, and have privatized their healthcare and school system. Their corona strategy is even worse than ours.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 203: What strikes me about that definition is that “without permission” bit. However are we fiction writers to seek “permission” to use a character from another race or culture, or to employ the vernacular of a group to which we don’t belong? Do we set up a stand on the corner and approach passers-by with a clipboard, getting signatures that grant limited rights to employ an Indonesian character in Chapter Twelve, the way political volunteers get a candidate on the ballot? Anyway, do you really expect us Americans to seek permission from any of those lower races? Did we do so when we appropriated their land and property?
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 224: This same reviewer recapitulated Cleave’s obligation “to show that he’s representing [the girl], rather than exploiting her.” Again, a false dichotomy. Unlike Kingsley Amis and his dad, we well-to-do white Americans can do both. America is a representative democracy, after all. We represent, y'all just stick to picking the cotton.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 235: My most recent novel The Mandibles was taken to task by one reviewer for addressing an America that is “straight and white”. It happens that this is a multigenerational family saga – about a white family. I wasn’t instinctively inclined to insert a transvestite or bisexual, with issues that might distract from my central subject matter of apocalyptic economics. Yet the implication of this criticism is that we novelists need to plug in representatives of a variety of groups in our cast of characters, as if filling out the entering class of freshmen at a university with strict diversity requirements. Besides, America IS straight and white, at least the America I know about. I haven't had time to appropriate any Nigerian girls yet, nor Afro Americans even.
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 237: You do indeed see just this brand of tokenism in television. There was a point in the latter 1990s at which suddenly every sitcom and drama in sight had to have a gay or lesbian character or couple. That was good news as a voucher of the success of the gay rights movement, but it still grew a bit tiresome: look at us, our show is so hip, one of the characters is homosexual! It is SOOO tiresome, why can't we just watch the superbly funny middle class straight white Americans instead?
xxx/ellauri103.html on line 604: Why are some Americans so interested in knowing what race Spaniards and Italians are? Why is this such a big deal in America?
xxx/ellauri120.html on line 70: Edward Bernays was the nephew of Freud. His mother was Freud’s sister and his father was Freud’s wife’s brother. Born in 1891, and brought to the United States with his family in the first year of his life, Bernays injected his uncle’s insights into the very marrow and bloodstream of American culture, altering its pulse and functioning—along with the rest of the world. He did so using the unique means and methods of American culture to achieve its most valued end: Cash. Life magazine named Bernays one of the 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century.
xxx/ellauri122.html on line 956: Often considered the gateway title to other graphic novels like 'V for Vendetta' and 'Batman: The Dark Knight Returns,' the series dissects the entire concept of the superhero in a way that sticks with readers for years. Fucking superheroes, why the heck do Americans get so hot about them? Well it's all part of the American dream.
xxx/ellauri125.html on line 298: One of the many striking and often shocking metaphors within “Yeezus,” the new album from rapper Kanye West, arrives halfway into the 10-song release, during a song called “I’m in It.” It involves a quote by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Thank God almighty, free at last,” raps West, referencing a phrase from 50 years ago that the civil-rights leader used in relation to the plight of African Americans.
xxx/ellauri129.html on line 662: With that, she did not go back to her former life, but became a national celebrity of sorts, publishing "an armload of books and criss-crossing the United States on a decades-long reform campaign", not only fighting for married women's rights and freedom of speech, but calling out against "the power of insane asylums". She became what some scholars call "a publicist and lobbyist for better insanity laws". As scholar Kathryn Burns-Howard has argued, Packard reinvented herself in this rôle, earning enough to support her children and even her estranged husband, from whom she remained separated for the rest of her life. Ultimately, moderate supporters of women's rights in the northern U.S. embraced her, weaving her story into arguments about slavery, framing her experience as a type of enslavement and even arguing in the midst of the Civil War that a county in the midst of freeing African-American slaves should do the same for others who suffered from abusive husbands. Some argue that she seemed oblivious to her racial prejudice in arguing that white women had a "moral and spiritual nature" and suffered more "spiritual agony" than formerly enslaved African-Americans. Even so, others say that her story provided "a stirring example of oppressed womanhood" that others did not.
xxx/ellauri149.html on line 55: Tung said he prefers teams with cross-cultural backgrounds. For example, Zhang Sheng, co-founder of Wish, is a Chinese who once studied in the U.S., while another co-founder of the company Peter Szulczewski is a Jew from east Europe. He explained that Americans tend to focus on domestic market and ignore overseas opportunities. But teams with multinational backgrounds are more likely to set their eyes on global market. For example, around 50% of Wish’s revenue comes from overseas market.
xxx/ellauri149.html on line 521: Rockwell denied the Holocaust and believed that Martin Luther King Jr. was a tool for Jewish Communists wanting to rule the white community. He blamed the civil rights movement on the Jews. He regarded Hitler as the White savior of the twentieth century. He viewed black people as a primitive, lethargic race who desired only simple pleasures and a life of irresponsibility and supported the resettlement of all African Americans in a new African state to be funded by the U.S. government. As a supporter of racial segregation, he agreed with and quoted many leaders of the Black nationalism movement such as Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X. In later years, Rockwell became increasingly aligned with other Neo-Nazi groups, leading the World Union of National Socialists.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 572: With the whole world watching, the three major news networks brought the show into millions of Americans’ living rooms. They covered the ensuing mayhem which sparked a national debate about objectivity and journalistic integrity. Senator Abraham Ribicoff only saw textbook police brutality and Gestapo tactics, being an east coast kike. But millions of flyover state Middle Americans, the “silent majority,” saw different.
xxx/ellauri167.html on line 598: If the idea of network coverage being driven by liberal bias wasn’t new to the 1968 convention, the heat and undeniable violence of the convention was a perfect opportunity for white, conservative, middle Americans to coalesce in their resentment—and not just in the South, but across the nation. America was falling apart at the seams, and the network news was seen as complicit in the conspiracy by virtue of recording what was happening.
xxx/ellauri176.html on line 891: What is the 'alt-right'? Who coined the term 'alt-right'? The white supremacist Richard Spencer devised the term in 2010. He has described the movement as "identity politics for white Americans and for Europeans around the world". What does it stand for? The movement supports extreme rightwing ideologies, including white nationalism – used interchangeably with white supremacism – and antisemitism. It positions itself broadly against egalitarianism, democracy, universalism and multiculturalism.
xxx/ellauri178.html on line 362: On 25 May 1901, Chekhov married Olga Knipper quietly, owing to his horror of weddings. She was a former protégée and sometime lover of Nemirovich-Danchenko whom he had first met at rehearsals for The Seagull. Up to that point, Chekhov, known as "Russia's most elusive literary bachelor," had preferred passing liaisons and visits to brothels over commitment. For the rest, he lived largely at Yalta, she in Moscow, pursuing her acting career. In 1902, Olga suffered a miscarriage; and Americans have offered evidence, based on the couple's letters, that conception may have occurred when Chekhov and Olga were apart, although Russian scholars have rejected that claim. Perhaps the semen was conveyed from Yalta to Moscow by snail mail.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 181: Whereas Hemingway wrote passionately about boxing and his own prowess, others, like Dempsey, saw something else. “There were a lot of Americans in Paris and I sparred with a couple, just to be obliging,” the Champ said. “But there was one fellow I wouldn’t mix it with. That was Ernest Hemingway. He was about twenty-five or so and in good shape, and I was getting so I could read people, or anyway men, pretty well. I had this sense that Hemingway, who really thought he could box, would come out of the corner like a madman. To stop him, I would have to hurt him badly, I didn’t want to do that to Hemingway. That’s why I never sparred with him.” Hemingway’s frequent sparring partner and fellow writer Morley Callaghan offered another sobering account of his training partner, saying, “we were two amateur boxers. The difference between us was that Ernie had given time and imagination to boxing; I had actually worked out a lot with good fast college boxers.” I had never seen Mr. Hemingway box, of course. But I will say this: the confidence of mediocre men is a fucking superpower. I have met many versions of this guy. Hell, I’ve sparred with the dude myself.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 316: The courageous Wile E. Coyote thus serves as a moral example for all Americans.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 352: The mahogany bar spread eight feet with dark boards underneath that swirled up to a marble top. A famous writer with taped up glasses and grey-flaked hair sat at a table in the back corner. Two Americans walked in and sat on the barstools. They acknowledged the writer and ordered drinks. They were big men, just like him, and he had seen them in here many times. It was a small room. Fifteen by thirty feet at most with windows only in the door. The writer drank his Asti Spumante. The owner of the bar, Giuseppe Cipriani, walked towards his table and crouched down.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 380: “Very well, yes, Papa,” Juice said and walked to the bar. He poured the drinks and left grappas for the two Americans.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 390: “The bourgeois appreciates?” Papa laughed big and drank his grappa and picked up the walking stick. The two Americans sat drinking their grappas at the bar. One had taped up glasses and the other had messy grey-flaked hair. The one with the glasses listened closely. The other just drank.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 394: “I'll bet you fifty dollars I can break it with my bare hands.” One of the Americans said it.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 412: The Americans at the bar listened and drank grappas. Four women entered the bar and joked loudly behind the Americans who didn't seem to notice. They shook and laughed and they smelled good but their voices were crass. Two of them smoked and the room got smokier than before.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 438: The Americans turned to face the scene after finishing their grappas. “Listen, boy, now get out,” Papa said as he stood up. “You're going to get yourself hurt.”
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 442: Papa grabbed his wrist and punched his stomach with it. “What do you think of that?” He looked at Papa. One of the Americans slapped him and pushed his chest. “Come on, now, boy.” The Americans made for the door. Nick followed, and then the man after him.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 446: One of the Americans feinted and knocked his right side. He fell and looked up at Papa. They were in the shade of the building, but where he fell in the sun of the street, Papa's shadow covered him.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 510: “Papa, one grappa,” the older officer said. Papa was drunk but told Juice to pour them. Juice poured four glasses and the Americans held their glasses out as Juice poured. They drank slowly and the officers said they would not raise suspicion returning late.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 518: The Americans paid their tab and stepped outside. Cobblestones ran through narrow alleys and slightly less narrow streets that led to the sea with buildings all along. Across from Harry's, a white building stood next to a red one. The Americans glanced at the spot the people had been killed. It was a few feet into the street and in line with the stark change in color between the buildings. Four children walked over the spot carelessly. They jumped and skipped happily to where the men couldn't see them.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 536: The Americans stepped into a dark music hall. Four men onstage played the blues. Low and slow. A few people sat at tables smoking. The band got louder and Papa saw Nick Adams at one of the tables.
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 96: At his best, Beecher represented what remains the most lovable and popular strain of American culture: incurable optimism; can-do enthusiasm; and open-minded, open-hearted pragmatism ... His reputation has been eclipsed by his own success. Mainstream Christianity is so deeply infused with the rhetoric of Christ's love that most Americans can imagine nothing else, and have no appreciation or memory of the revolution wrought by Beecher and his peers.
xxx/ellauri199.html on line 1078: Geisel supported the concentration camps of Japanese Americans during World War II in order to prevent possible sabotage. Geisel explained his position:
xxx/ellauri224.html on line 124: Moore had remarked only days earlier that: "I fully expect the Fox News Channel and other right-wing media to portray this as an award from the French. There was only one French citizen on the jury. Four out of nine were American. This is not a French award, it was given by an international jury dominated by Americans."The jury was made up of four North Americans (one of them born in Haiti), four Europeans, and one Asian. Some fucking expatriate commies, I bet.
xxx/ellauri224.html on line 135: In the conclusion of the film, Moore notes that the United States Constitution no longer protects normal Americans from the wealthy and powerful of American society, and that the American Dream is now nothing more than a bad wet dream.
xxx/ellauri224.html on line 372: s a threat to his cloistered virtue. Or perhaps I am wrong. Eliot's racism towards African-Americans was expressed in the crudest and most simplistic of doggerel; the antisemitism creeps into, if not his greatest work, at least into work closely allied to it.
xxx/ellauri250.html on line 565: On July 22, 1944, with the war ongoing, Bukowski was arrested by FBI agents in Philadelphia, where he lived at the time, on well grounded suspicion of draft evasion. At a time when the U.S. was at war with Nazi Germany, and many Germans and German-Americans on the home front were suspected of disloyalty, Bukowski's German birth and habit of quoting Mein Kampf "troubled" authorities. He was held for seventeen days in Philadelphia's Moyamensing Prison. Sixteen days later, he failed a psychological examination that was part of his mandatory military entrance physical test and was given a Selective Service Classification of 4-F (unfit for much anything, let alone military service, als physisch sowie mental untauglich für den Militärdienst ).
xxx/ellauri252.html on line 533: The second reason is that China, without provocation, attacked and killed *Americans*!. The Korean War was a military operation to ensure the sovereignty of South Korea. It was not an operation to fight Communism or kill Communists.
xxx/ellauri255.html on line 139: Some supplies were brought in through the far north – through Murmansk, where the British already had a base, and Archangel, with some marines who’d landed in 1918 to protect the supplies delivered there. Then, in the far east, the Japanese started to land huge numbers of troops. At one stage Japan had almost 70,000 troops in Siberia. The Americans also sent in the equivalent of a small division of troops as part of an expeditionary force.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 566: Stein matkusti 1903 veljensä Leon kanssa Pariisiin eikä palannut Amerikkaan enää kuin yhden kerran, pitämään luentosarjan 1930-luvulla. Stein hänen veljensä asettivat asumaan Rue de Fleurus’lle pieneen kaksikerroksiseen taloon, johon kuului sivurakennuksena ateljee. Molemmat olivat hyvin kiinnostuneita modernista maalaustaiteesta, ja he aloittivat taidekokoelman keräämisen sekä illallisten järjestämisen taiteilijoille ja taiteista kiinnostuneille. Stein ja hänen veljensä olivat ensimmäisiä kubistien, kuten Picasson, Matissen ja Georges Braquen, keräilijöitä. Steinien ateljeessa sijaitseva kokoelma käsitti myös Cézannen ja Renoirin tuotantoa; kaikki seinät olivat kattoon saakka maalauksia täynnä. Eräillä kuuluisimmista illallisistaan Stein järjesti niin, että jokainen taiteilija sai istua omaa maalaustaan vastapäätä, ja kaikki olivat hyvin tyytyväisiä. Pariisiin muutettuaan Stein aloitti 1908 myös kirjailijan uransa käännöstöillä ja sukukronikalla The Making of Americans (1925).
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 572: Elinaikanaan Stein julkaisi 26 teosta, ja hänen kuolemansa jälkeen niitä julkaistiin vielä 12. Ensimmäinen teos Three Lives valmistui vuonna 1905, ja vuotta myöhemmin hän alkoi kirjoittaa laajaa pääteostaan The Making of Americans (1925). Yksi Steinin tunnetuimmista lauseista on runosta Sacred Emily (1913): ”Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” Tätä Jaakko Hintikalla oli tapana hokea. Myöhemmin Stein kirjoitti lastenkirjan The World is Round (suomennettu kexeliäällä nimellä Maailma on pyöreä), jonka päähenkilö on Rose-niminen tyttö ja jossa sama lause esiintyy monta kertaa.
xxx/ellauri261.html on line 652: Out of all Americans who do not believe in God, 5% identified as Catholic while 9% identified as Protestant and other Christian according to the 2007 Pew Religious Landscape survey. Out of all Americans who identify as unaffiliated including atheists and agnostics, 41% were raised Protestant and 28% were raised Catholic according to the 2014 Pew Religious Landscape survey.
xxx/ellauri291.html on line 315: Howe kuoli keuhkokuumeeseen 17. lokakuuta 1910 Portsmouth-kodissaan Oak Glenissä 91-vuotiaana. Hänet on haudattu Mount Auburnin hautausmaalle Cambridgessa, Massachusettsissa. Hänen muistotilaisuudessaan noin 4 000 ihmistä lauloi "Kalle-Kustaan muoria" kunnioituksen osoituksena, sillä se oli tapana laulaa jokaisessa Julian puhetilaisuudessa. Vuonna 1987 US Postal Service palkitsi hänet 14 ¢ Great Americans -sarjan postimerkillä!
xxx/ellauri307.html on line 749: Benjy DeMott -vainaa "saw as three pervasive social myths: the assumption, held by many Americans, that we live in a classless society; the promise, held out by movies and television, that individual friendships between blacks and whites can vanquish racism all by themselves; and the images of women, ubiquitous in popular culture, that render them almost indistinguishable from men." He opined that movements of the lower classes have a tendency to 'go awry.' Benjamin Haile DeMott was born on June 2, 1924, in Rockville Centre, N.Y.; his father was a carpenter, his mother a faith healer. He joined the Amherst faculty in 1951 and earned a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard two years later. He observed that a tenet of national faith in America had been that "goodness equals laughter, that humour can banish crisis, that if you pack up your troubles and smile, horror will take to the caves". Critical response to Mr. DeMott's work was divided. His detractors saw his pop-culture references as forced efforts to look au courant.
xxx/ellauri394.html on line 115: The Bayonet Constitution was so named because it had been signed by the previous monarch under threat of violence from a militia composed of armed Americans and Europeans calling themselves the "Honolulu Rifles".
xxx/ellauri394.html on line 273: Warren Zimmermann (2004). First Great Triumph: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. p. 290. ISBN 9780374528935. Archived from the original on August 22, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
xxx/ellauri394.html on line 315: Van Dyke, Jon M. (2008). Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaiʻi? (The Americans.) Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-6560-3. OCLC 257449971. Archived from the original on November 11, 2016. Retrieved November 10, 2016 – via Project MUSE.
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 211: The source for “bolo” and more sailor songs was the occupation of the Philippines by the Americans when Navy, Army and Marine corps. were busy ‘pacifying’ the newly acquired Philippines. According to the editors of the Letters, Rear Admiral Barry docked his flagship in
xxx/ellauri417.html on line 58: Yes, Russian people working regular jobs live better than homeless people in America living in the streets. But they don’t live anywhere as comfortable as Americans who work in the same type of jobs.
xxx/ellauri427.html on line 248: Amis had an unclear relationship with antisemitism, which he sometimes expressed but also claimed to dislike. He occasionally speculated on the commonly advanced Jewish stereotypes. Antisemitism was sometimes present in his conversations and letters to friends and associates, such as "The great Jewish vice is glibness, fluency ... also possibly just bullshit, as in Marx, Freud, Marcuse", or "Chaplin [who was a gypsy] is a horse's arse. He's a Jeeeew you see, like the Marx Brothers, like Danny Kaye." As for the cultural complexion of the United States, Amis had this to say: "I've finally worked out why I don't like Americans ... . Because everyone there is either a Jew or a hick." Amis himself described his antisemitism as "very mild".
xxx/ellauri440.html on line 435: America and Americans (esp. in Famous Five on Finniston Farm)
xxx/ellauri440.html on line 437: Listening to (sic) Five on Finniston Farm, I was really struck by the importance of the idea of an American trying to "buy up British history" (and one of the children comes very close to saying precisely these precise words!) and this struck me as a really interesting piece of postwar insecurity and even nationalist resentment. And does it strike anybody else that the quaint little islands, half-forgotten, always to be rediscovered, in danger of being sold and containing unimaginably rich hoards of gold (cultural heritage?!?) might actually all be fantasies and insecurities about Britain as an island nation? Enid Blyton gives us a stereotypical portrayal of Americans in Five On Finniston Farm - Junior is spoilt and his father is loud, brash and greedy. Do British people understand that if they came to America to work and
xxx/ellauri440.html on line 461: "We won't! We promise! said both girls at once. Pikku Annella on sievä takaa aukinainen printtitoppi, tukkapanta ja rengas ranteessa. Blondi tukka, topin alla ihan pienet tissinaihiot ja kohdun aiheuttama kohouma. Sillä on söpöjä pisamia naamassa. Pikkareissa piilottelee pikkuruinen posliininen camel foot. Senkun saisi elävänä pulloon! Viisikot on kilttejä lapsia, valmiita auttamaan kuin pikku Papu. Läski Junior on pikku paskiainen. I like most Americans very much, but not the Hennings.
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The Domestic Manners of the Americans
xxx/ellauri440.html on line 467: This book (1832) by Anthony Trollope's mom Frances Milton Trollope created a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, as Frances Trollope had a caustic view of the Americans and found America strongly lacking in manners and learning. She was appalled by America's egalitarian middle-class and by the influence of evangelicalism that was emerging during the Second Great Awakening. Trollope was also harshly critical of slavery of African Americans in the United States, and by the popularity of tobacco chewing, and the consequent spitting, even on carpets. After seeing much of what the United States had to offer, her overall impression was not favourable. At the end of the book, she tried to summarise what she found wrong in the American character:
xxx/ellauri441.html on line 347: Bernard Lewis was no scholar of Islam. He was a British colonial officer writing intelligence for his fellow officers on how to rule the Muslim world better. Today, when we think of Bernard Lewis’ legacy, we think of the Islamophobic industry that has US President Donald Trump and his gang of billionaires crowned at the White House. This needs no further evidence and proof than looking at who is praising him after his death. “Bernard Lewis was one of the great scholars of Islam and the Middle East in our time. We will be forever grateful for his robust defense of Israel,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, himself, of course, another world-class authority on Islam and the Middle East! "As a true scholar and a great man,” chimed in newly minted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, another topnotch scholar in the field of Islamic studies, “I owe a great deal of my understanding of the Middle East to his work […] He was also a man who believed, as I do, that Americans must be more confident in the greatness of our country, not less. Thank you, Mr. Lewis, for your life of service.” “You simply cannot find a greater authority on Middle Eastern history,” this according to Dick Cheney, the former vice president who brought us waterboarding and Abu Ghraib torture chambers and who, of course, is also a stellar authority on Islamic history and doctrine himself. Lewis was an ideological functionary, an intelligence officer, on par with Francis Fukuyama and Samuel Huntington, competing for the ears of powerful people to tell them how to hate Muslims more persuasively.
xxx/ellauri441.html on line 504: In addition, he likened the status of Palestinians in the West Bank to that of African-Americans in the United States during the Jim Crow laws, and to the apartheid system which existed in South Africa. In his remarks, he called on the Security Council and the international community to take immediate action against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, and in particular to stop the evacuation of Khan al-Ahmar.
xxx/ellauri465.html on line 252: Gliffordin oikea nimi oli Garfein ✡. Meyer Meyerin ✡ oikea nimi oli Rock Hudson. Rock Hudson ✞ (1925-1985) oli oikeasti homo saku Scherer. Later in life, Hudson admitted that he hated the name. It's not a patriotic song,” composer Irving Berlin ✡ said in a 1940 interview, “but an expression of gratitude for what this country has done for its citizens, of what home really means.” Today, many Americans consider “God Bless America” an unofficial national anthem of the United States.
xxx/ellauri465.html on line 354: 15 films, 14 songs and 12 tv episodes have been loosely based on Howard. There is not one decisive ranking of the richest Americans in history. Examples include John D. Rockefeller, whose father was a traveling peddler; Cornelius Vanderbilt, whose father operated a ferry in New York Harbor; Henry Flagler, who was the son of a Presbyterian minister; and Andrew Carnegie, who was the son of a Scottish weaver.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 707: Kristinusko menee jenkeissäkin alamäkeä vaikka matuissa on paljon katollisia. Parhaiten se on säilynyt valkeissa rebublikaaneissa. The proportion of white Christians in the country has remained steady, at 42%, after a long decline from 72% in 1990 to 42% in 2018. The proportion of religiously unaffiliated has ticked up again, to 27%. Nukkuvien seurakunta on jo suurin kaikista, samaa luokkaa kuin on yhteensä WASPeja. As of 2025, approximately 62% of U.S. adults identify as Christians, a decline from 78% in 2007, but this percentage has stabilized in recent years. The largest groups within Christianity are Protestants, making up about 40%, and Catholics, accounting for about 19% of the population. Religious 'Nones' are now the largest single group in the U.S. Niitä on enemmän kuin evankelikaalisia (24%) tai katollisia (23%). Luvut heittelevät riippuen kenen disinformaatiosta on kymysys. Americans continue to demonstrate high levels of spiritual belief, with 86% believing people have a soul or spirit beyond their physical body. Luttanenä Platolla on paljon tuulettimia. Americans who say their spirituality has increased outnumber those who say it decreased by four-to-one (43% vs 11%), indicating that spiritual growth continues even as institutional religious participation "evolves." 63% of young adults report feeling deep wonder about the universe at least monthly. 99% of age groups 18-24 wank at least weekly. 70% believe in an afterlife. (We are not liable for any financial loss or damages of any kind that may result from the use of the information herein.)
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 713: Why do so many people admire Abraham Lincoln? They may tell you it is because he was thrifty, hardworking, eager for knowledge, ambitious, devoted to the rights of the average man, and eminently successful in climbing the ladder of opportunity. Why do so many people dislike the Jews? They may tell you it is because they are thrifty, hardworking, eager for knowledge, ambitious, devoted to the rights of the average jew, and eminently successful in climbing the ladder of opportunity. Of course, the terms used may be less laudatory in the case of the Jews: one may say they are tight-fisted, pushy, nosey, radical social climbers. But the fact remains that, essentially, the personality qualities admired in Abraham Lincoln are deplored in Jews. They should be equally deplored in all Americans.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 717: The Russian, judged at a time when the Soviet government and the United States were wartime allies, was seen as rugged, brave, and patriotic. Within a few years the picture changed so that he appeared fierce, aggressive, and fanatic. Meanwhile the unfavorable images of the Japanese (and Japanese-Americans) altered and softened.
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Negative Stereotypes of Americans
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 828: Arrogant and Overconfident: Americans are sometimes viewed as arrogant or overconfident, with a tendency to believe their country is superior to others.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 830: Ignorant of Other Cultures: There is a stereotype that Americans are uninformed or indifferent about other cultures and global affairs.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 832: Loud and Boisterous: Americans might be seen as loud, boisterous, or lacking in social grace, particularly in public settings or during travel.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 834: Materialistic and Consumer-Driven: There is a perception that Americans are excessively materialistic and driven by consumerism, valuing possessions and wealth highly.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 836: Obesity and Poor Health: The stereotype that Americans are overweight or have poor eating habits is prevalent, partly due to high rates of obesity and fast food consumption.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 838: Unaware of World Geography: Some view Americans as having limited knowledge of world geography, often being unaware of countries and cultures outside their own.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 840: Aggressive Foreign Policy: There is a stereotype that Americans are aggressive or interventionist in their foreign policy, often imposing their will on other nations.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 842: Lack of Politeness: Americans might be seen as lacking in politeness or etiquette, especially in terms of manners and respect for local customs.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 846: Superficiality: There is a stereotype that Americans can be superficial, focusing on appearance and material success rather than deeper values.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 850: Entitlement and Privilege: Some view Americans as feeling entitled or privileged, taking their wealth and resources for granted and expecting special treatment.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 852: Uninformed About Domestic Issues: There is a perception that Americans are often uninformed or disengaged from important domestic issues and current events.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 854: Cultural Insensitivity: Americans might be seen as culturally insensitive or disrespectful when traveling abroad, not always understanding or appreciating local customs and traditions.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 858: Short Attention Span: Some view Americans as having a short attention span, particularly in terms of media consumption and commitment to long-term projects.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 860: Overuse of Technology: The stereotype exists that Americans are overly dependent on technology, leading to concerns about social isolation and reduced face-to-face interactions.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 863: Environmental Neglect: Americans might be seen as neglectful of environmental issues, with high levels of pollution and a perceived lack of commitment to sustainability.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 865: Preoccupation with Celebrity Culture: There is a stereotype that Americans are overly preoccupied with celebrity culture and entertainment, often at the expense of more substantive interests.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 867: Ignorant of History: Some view Americans as having limited knowledge of history, both their own and that of other countries.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 869: Excessive Patriotism: There is a stereotype that Americans are excessively patriotic, with a strong sense of nationalism that can lead to exclusionary attitudes.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 871: Uncaring About Global Issues: Americans might be perceived as uncaring or disengaged from global issues, focusing more on domestic concerns.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 873: Wasteful Consumption: There is a stereotype that Americans are wasteful in their consumption of resources, including energy, food, and goods.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 877: Tendency to Generalize: Americans might be perceived as tending to generalize or oversimplify complex global issues, leading to a lack of nuanced understanding.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 879: Overly Competitive: There is a stereotype that Americans are excessively competitive, often prioritizing winning over cooperation and collaboration.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 883: Lack of Health Awareness: Americans are sometimes perceived as having poor health awareness, with high rates of obesity and related health issues.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 885: Short-Term Focus: There is a perception that Americans have a short-term focus, prioritizing immediate results over long-term planning and sustainability.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 887: Superficial Relationships: Some view Americans as having superficial relationships, with a focus on casual interactions rather than deep, meaningful connections.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 889: Overreliance on Credit: There is a stereotype that Americans rely heavily on credit and debt, leading to financial instability and poor money management.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 891: Insensitivity to Local Customs: Americans might be seen as insensitive or disrespectful of local customs and traditions when traveling abroad.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 902: Judgmental Attitudes: There is a perception that Americans can be judgmental or intolerant of different lifestyles and beliefs, particularly in more conservative regions and religions.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 904: Overconsumption of Media: Americans might be seen as overconsuming media and entertainment, often prioritizing these over education or meaningful activities.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 909: Obsession with guns. The United States has a historical fondness for guns, and this is often portrayed in American media. A considerable percentage of Americans own firearms, and the United States has some of the developed world's highest death rates caused by firearms. A 2018 article attributed the high death rates to mass shootings or inner city violence, but the murder rate in America was then on a decline, and it appeared that suicide by firearm is a large contributor to the "gun-deaths" statistic. The international media often report American mass shootings, making these incidents well known internationally despite the fact that these kind of killings account for an extremely small portion of the huge firearms death rate. In 2007, the United States was ranked number one in gun ownership with a rate of 88.8 guns per 100 residents. In 2017, the United States again ranked number one in gun ownership with a rate of 120.5 guns per 100 citizens.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 911: Materialism, over-consumption, and extreme capitalism. A common stereotype of Americans is that of economic materialism and capitalism. They may be seen as caring most about money, judging all things by their economic value, and scorning those of lower socioeconomic status, despite the fact that, as noted above, Americans are also highly charitable by global standards. Total charitable contributions in 2010 were higher in the United States than in any other country. Lack of cultural awareness. Americans may be stereotyped as ignorant of countries and cultures beyond their own. This stereotype shows them as lacking intellectual curiosity, thus making them ignorant of other cultures, places, or lifestyles outside of the United States. The stereotype of a decline in cultural awareness among American students is attributed by some critics to the ostensible declining standards of American schools and curricula.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 913: Racism and racialism. Racism had a significant presence in American history throughout the 18th, 19th, and early to mid 20th centuries. However, following the emancipation of Black slaves after the American Civil War and the civil rights movements of the 1950s and 1960s, Americans of all races achieved the same freedoms and legal protections as the white-majority population, and discrimination against people of minority races due to their race is now illegal - though examples of racial discrimination do continue into the present, they are statistically rare. In a 2017 survey, 58% of Americans are concerned about structural racism.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 915: Environmental ignorance. Americans may be seen as reckless and imprudent regarding the preservation of the environment. They may be portrayed as lavish, driving high polluting SUVs and unconcerned about climate change or global warming. The United States (whose population is 327 million) has the second-highest carbon dioxide emissions after China (whose population is 1.4 billion), is one of the few countries which did not ratify the Kyoto Protocol, and one of three countries to refuse to participate in the Paris Agreement. In the context of stereotyping, it is perhaps more relevant to look at CO2 production per capita; the USA compares favorably with oil-producing nations in the Middle East, with Qatar at 40.3 metric tons per capita versus the United States' 17.6 metric tons per capita, though they are behind most European countries. Germany, for instance, emits only 9.1 metric tons per capita. However, the United States has reduced their energy-related greenhouse gas emissions by 12% from 2005 to 2018 while, in the same time period, the world's energy-related emissions have increased by 24%.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 917: Arrogance and nationalism. Americans are often stereotyped as arrogant. They are frequently depicted in foreign media as excessively nationalistic and obnoxiously patriotic, believing the United States is better than all other countries and patronizing foreigners. Americans are seen by people of other countries as arrogant and egomaniacal. In 2009, then-U.S. president Barack Obama said that the United States has "shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive" towards its allies. It has only gotten worse. See also: Americentrism, Ugly American (pejorative), and Global arrogance.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 919: Workaholic culture. While the stereotype of hard-working Americans is often erroneously cited as a positive one, the United States has also been criticized in recent years as a workaholic culture. In The Huffington Post, Tijana Milosevic, a Serbian who had traveled to Washington, D.C. for a degree, wrote, "In fact my family and friends had observed that I shouldn’t have chosen America, since I would probably feel better in Western Europe — where life is not as shitty as in the US and capitalism still wears a 'human face.'" She noted that "Americans work nine full weeks (350 hours) longer than West Europeans do and paid vacation days across Western Europe are well above the US threshold." Researchers at Oxford Economics hired by the US Travel Association estimated that in 2014 "about 169m days, equivalent to $52.4bn in lost benefits", went unused by American workers. Professor Gary L. Cooper argued Americans "have a great deal to learn from Europeans about getting better work and life" and wrote: The notion that working long hours, skipping lunch and "grabbing" tons of overpriced ultraprocessed shit and not taking holidays makes for a more productive workforce is a managerial myth, with no foundation in organizational or psychological science. Man is a biological machine, and like all machines can wear out. In addition, if employees don't invest personal garbage disposal time in their relationships outside, with their family, loved ones and friends, they will be undermining the only social support system they got in difficult and stressful "unhoused" times.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 921: Obesity. A very common stereotype of Americans, attested across the globe, is that they are overweight or obese. The "fat American" trope usually goes hand-in-hand with stereotypes of consumerism, but geopolitically, it has also been associated with expansionism and cultural imperialism. In 2017, a study found that overweight Asians were more likely to be seen as "American" than non-overweight Asians, though the same was not true for other ethnicities. See also: Obesity in the United States.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 923: Driving habits. Americans sit with their fat arses glued to their oversized personal automobiles, while neglecting other forms of transport such as biking or public transport. They are also easily confused by roundabouts.
xxx/ellauri467.html on line 931: Like: This is nothing but another example of the derision and condescending approach the en.wiki community takes towards anything American or relating to Americans as a people. How long must the en.wiki be a hotbed of sanctioned and encouraged anti-Americanism? Quo usque tandem abutere patientia nostra?
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