The Linguistic Colonialism of English - Brown Political Review
2017年4月25日 · 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
2018年10月31日 · 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 ...
The [BLEEP] You Can’t Say on TV: A History of Swearing in Television
2018年8月13日 · Stephen Colbert was reporting on Trump’s comment about “first rate pussy” on his late night show, and went on to use the word “pussy” multiple times without being censored. While it was after 10PM, this video was then uploaded to YouTube. Traditionally, late night talk show hosts would avoid using such vulgarity, especially uncensored, but since the monologue was founded off of a ...
The Chaebol: A Curse in Disguise - Brown Political Review
2023年3月26日 · 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 ...
BPR Interviews: Maggie Williams - Brown Political Review
2020年4月7日 · Maggie Williams is a scholar and political leader who served as Director of Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, Director of Communications for the Children’s Defense Fund, Deputy Press Secretary of the Democratic National Committee, and Congressional aid to Morris Udall. From 1993-1997, Williams worked as President Clinton’s assistant, and was then named First Lady Clinton’s ...
Juvenile Criminal Justice: The Benefits of a more Lenient Youth Policy
2022年10月26日 · Due to excessively harsh sentences, the criminal justice system makes it more likely that delinquents will re-offend in the future. Juveniles especially suffer from this punitive system and would benefit greatly from a more rehabilitative approach. Many young offenders who are currently imprisoned already suffer from mental health or substance ...
What is a Green Party? - Brown Political Review
2021年11月22日 · The short answer is yes — Green parties are still necessary, even when there are other parties that oppose capitalism as the principal cause of the climate crisis. A socialist party is not a substitute for a Green party; socialist regimes have approached the environment with the same human-centered arrogance as their capitalist rivals.
Lawless on the High Seas: Why the U.S. Can and Must Ratify …
2018年12月16日 · One of the main arguments against accession to UNCLOS is that the United States might have to surrender sovereignty to the International Seabed Authority (ISA), which has oversight over deep seabed mining. Critics of the convention claim that the U.S. would open itself up to international lawsuits over environmental policy from the ISA.
Utilitarianism and the Market Economy - Brown Political Review
2017年4月12日 · Utilitarianism and the Market Economy. Aristotle famously began the Nicomachean Ethics with a declaration: “Every art and every investigation, and likewise every practical pursuit or undertaking, seems to aim at some good.”. He contends that a “final good” must exist in order to surmount the difficulties that would arise from an endless ...
The Fallacy and Persistence of “Trickle-Down Economics”
2019年11月15日 · The comprehensive analyses refuting trickle-down theory are numerous. A recent study found that tax cuts for lower-income groups do tend to facilitate encouraging employment growth, but that tax cuts for the upper 10 percent have a muted effect on job creation. This reflects the basic flaw in the philosophy of supply-side economics as a viable approach to advantaging the lower classes, as this ...