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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...f losing their man. 35 “Arranged marriages are still common in cultures like the Muslim and Hindu. And even worse, suspected indiscretion... ...ipping boys‟, or should we say „whipping girls.‟ 36 “The Western culture and media are huge threats to the impoverished or unsuccessful male... ... and 19% in the U.S.” —“So the obstacles for women seem to vary from culture to culture. The glass ceiling seems to change only in its height f... ...er jobs the floods of immigrants from different places, faiths, races and cultures will be left to turn their anger on each other and, very likely, ... ...mpaign in the U.S. to try to change American negative opinions of illegal Mexican immigrants. He said the situation had become „intolerable‟. I can... ...als have sent back an estimated $23 billion a year to bolster the lagging Mexican economy. Next to oil, the money from America is the highest source... ...1 “Social mobility occurs because superior people emerge within the culture and rise to the top. Edison, Einstein, Lincoln and Obama are such ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...lty. Yes Commander.‖ ---―As we move from religion to religion and culture to culture throughout history, monotheists and polytheists think a... ... panentheistic. Yet the Cherokees were monotheistic. The Central American cultures of the Aztecs and Mayans seemed to be polytheistic. Obviously if ... ...r them. We find that evidence in the scriptures of the Indian and Persian cultures. A Jew, a Christian or a Muslim would immediately dismiss their r... ...ious country is a more moral country. The idea that materialism leads to ―cultures of death‖ is the official opinion of your church, father. Pope Jo... ...ers and sellers? And I guess it would certainly include the Columbian and Mexican drug cartels. To be politically correct should we call white slave ... ...border or a sea. Albanians crossing to Greece, Africans sailing to Spain, Mexicans scaling the fence, or tunneling under it, to California—all scram... ...igrate to a more economically friendly culture. I have heard the dreams of Mexicans in my travels. They say, ‗I want to immigrate. I want a job, or w... ...their family in their home country benefits because they send money home. Mexican illegal immigrants send $23 billion a year home from their $9 an h... ...an hour average jobs. Heck, no wonder 12,000 people a month come over the Mexican-US border successfully. Wouldn‘t you do the same thing?‖ Immoral ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book I : Touchdown

By: Bob Oconnor

...Even the welfare paradise Norway has its Yugoslav mafia. Hollywood has its Mexican mafia. Sometimes I think that the criminals run the world and if... ... of its population. They could bring in foreign workers but the traditional culture of Japan has not been particularly open to people from other cult...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VII : Book 7 Visit to Indus

By: Bob Oconnor

... the chance. I remember being in California some years ago and seeing the Mexican bra ceros working in the fields. Nobody works harder. Your country... ...wing population growth. Same sex relationships have been a part of Western culture since at least the days of the Greeks and Romans. The Jewish, Chri... ...we don‘t have the economic impetus pushing some of us upward. Our farming culture has not fostered education as the middle and upper classes in Indi... ...n as the middle and upper classes in India have done. But like India, our culture is very traditional. It is family and religion centered. While Ind... ...ment of the human personality. In addition we have the right to enjoy the culture and the scientific achievements of society.(22) ―With all...

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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...gs, I am deterred, for, so to speak, the country is not yet adapted to human culture, and we are still forced to cut our spiritual bread far thinner ... ...ghboring towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.” The Mexicans also practised a similar purification at the end of every fifty tw... ...les of intellect and genius, and is sensible only of the imperfection of his culture and the vanity and insufficiency of all his riches, and further pr... ...nse by the pains which he takes to secure for his children that intellectual culture whose want he so keenly feels; and thus it is that he becomes the... ...re not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few ex ceptions, n... ...strides of any nation. But consider how little this village does for its own culture. I do not wish to flatter my townsmen, nor to be flattered by them,... ...e woods, and the trumpet that sings of fame, and I felt as if I could spit a Mexican with a good relish, — for why should we always stand for trifles? ...

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The Maine Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...ercise of practical talent merely are a sure and rapid means of intellectual culture and independence. The last edition of Greenleaf’s Map of Maine hu... ...the first generation of them deserve a pension more than any that went to the Mexican war. Early the next morning we started on our return up the Penob... ...hs and humanized Nature for him. But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pine...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...iences, our variables are nearly infinite. But not as infinite as the possibilities expressed by the many religions of the world. ―Our cultur... ... a common purpose and dynamic leadership, they stop growing when the individual selfishness of greed pulls down the necessary bulwarks of the cultur... ...anguage for frivolity rather than for philosophy. But guys, let‘s get serious again. Our mental environment is undoubtedly important. What our cultur... ...faction in individual love cannot be attained without the capacity to love one's neighbor, without true humility, faith, and discipline. In a cultur... ...gh their attitudes are conventional, they relate to ends rather than means. While they tend toward the conventional and exist well within the cultur... ...s! But it seems to me that I can see it everywhere. Most jokes have a power punch line. Whether the butt of the joke is a Jew, an Irishman, a Mexica... ...aring your favorite team‘s jerseys is a non-violent type of association. Or look at the power groupings in prisons, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Mexica...

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