The Linguistic Colonialism of English - Brown Political Review
Apr 25, 2017 · The Linguistic Colonialism of English. Some argue that the historical and current bloodshed of Western imperialism has transformed the English language into a universal tool of communication. Through centuries of colonialism, neocolonialism, Cold War expansionism, and, most recently, globalization, the West has spread its preferred systems of ...
Personal Space and American Individualism - Brown Political Review
Oct 31, 2018 · Personal space is defined as the invisible bubble that surrounds a person’s body during an interaction. In 2001, researchers analyzed the distance that people of different cultures maintained when talking with someone, and found that people from the US and the UK maintained the largest personal distance (81.43 cm), whereas people from Latin ...
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A Historical Look at China-Taiwan Relations
Nov 25, 2021 · A Historical Look at China-Taiwan Relations. China-Taiwan relations are at their “ worst in 40 years.”. There are “ confirmed US troops in Taiwan.”. And 150 mainland aircrafts entered Taiwan’s air defense identification zone in four days…. The continuous rise of hostility across the Taiwan strait has again seized international ...
Keeping Emmett Till Alive When We Need Him Most: An Interview …
Dec 1, 2020 · *Gabby Smith ’23 is a guest interviewer from BPR’s US section. When Keith Beauchamp was just 10 years old, he saw the image of Emmett Till’s battered face while looking through an issue of Jet magazine and afterwards his life would never be the same. Determined to share Till’s story with the world, he began researching the case as a […]
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The Chaebol: A Curse in Disguise - Brown Political Review
Mar 26, 2023 · Hailed as the “Miracle on the Han River,” South Korea’s rapid growth transformed the economy of one of the poorest countries in the world to one of the largest and most innovative. Today, the country is one of the largest exporters in the world, with exports totaling 40 percent of GDP in 2016—a massive rise from just four percent in 1961. In the same period of time, average income in ...
Understanding America’s Multi-Trillion Dollar Public Pension …
Jan 3, 2024 · Jean-Pierre Aubry is the Associate Director of State and Local Research at the Center for Retirement Research (CRR) at Boston College. He oversees and conducts research and data collection, develops new analytic techniques for evaluating retirement benefits, and secures funding support.
Beating Bobby Fischer: An Interview with Anna Cramling
Ariella Reynolds | January 5, 2024. Her name may not be Beth Harmon, but like the fictional heroine of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit, Anna Cramling Bellon is taking on the traditionally male-dominated world of chess and paving her own unique path to success. Known as Anna Cramling across Twitch, YouTube, Instagram, and other platforms, this ...
Beyond Paper Genocide: Taíno Recognition in Puerto Rico
Feb 17, 2022 · In 2018, a team from the Center for Geogenetics at the University of Copenhagen managed to reconstruct the complete Taíno genome using an 8th to 10th century Taíno skeleton. The researchers were able to establish “clear similarities” between modern Puerto Ricans and Taíno genetic ancestry. Historians such as Antonio Sotomayor from the ...