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Baird says Canada, Russia work well in Arctic despite other differences

MIKE BLANCHFIELD OTTAWA — The Canadian Press Published Saturday, Jan. 11 2014, 8:42 AM EST Last updated Saturday, Jan. 11 2014, 8:43 AM EST Whether it’s sharp differences over gay rights, political meddling in Ukraine or controversy over same sex adoptions, there’s no shortage of acrimony between Canada and Russia these days. But it’s not all bad, […]

The Global Arctic: The Growing Arctic Interests of Russia, China, the United States and the European Union

By Juha Käpylä and Harri Mikkola for Finnish Institute of International Affairs (FIIA) Russia has a vested interest in the economics and geopolitics of the Arctic, write Juha Käpylä and Harri Mikkola. The problem is that the US, China and the European Union all continue to define their interests in the region more precisely, which […]

South Korea and poor play of an actor that is clear even for the US

There appeared people in South Korea who heavily criticize international policy of President Park Geun-hye known as “For China, against Japan”, they urge to “get back at cooperation with overseas allies”. These people state that opposing Japan is nice, but it will definitely develop into estrangement from the US, which will ruin the country.   […]

Concrete – mixer as a symbol of technogenic tragedy

Levshin Sergey – collaborator of APIR center How do ordinary USA citizens imagine Russia and its inhabitants? It seemed we know all these stereotypes: bears on the streets, vodka, and the «great triad» – ushanka-balalayka-matryoshka. And even after the Soviet Union breakup it seem that image of our country in mass culture and ordinary consciousness […]

Jews in Multicultural America

Alan L. Mittleman Copyright (c) 1996 First Things 68 (December 1996): 14-17. For some decades, American Jews have made sense of the relation between their Americanness and their Jewishness through the concept of cultural pluralism. This concept allowed a flexible but expansive Jewish ethnic and religious identity to coexist with an equally normative American identity. […]

Multiculturalism in the United States

In the first part of this two-part essay on the anti-multiculturalism movement in Europe and United States, I attempted to carefully note that the backlash against multiculturalism was far more niched against specific groups—the Muslims in Europe and the UK and the Hispanics in the United States. I did not mean to suggest, however, that […]

USA – Politics and child like mentality

The U.S. Attorney General was at all five hearings. So were the Secretary of Agriculture and all the top anti-trust officials at the Departments of Justice and Agriculture. It was unprecedented: At five public hearings in five places across the country in 2010, two cabinet secretaries and all the top antitrust cops on the federal […]

Multiculturalism in America

Multiculturalism in America has promoted the socio-economic life of American society. Read ahead to know its effects on America. Multiculturalism is the acceptance of multiple ethnic cultures at the organizational level. This is applied to the demographic make-up of a country, where people from different religious backgrounds, countries and tradition are given equitable status in […]

Multicultural society in the USA

Comment The pros and cons of the multicultural society in the USA! The USA is regarded as country with unlimited possibilities. Because of the American Dream giving hope to so many people to make it America has the highest immigration rate. People immigrate into the USA legal but there are also many people entering the […]

Multiculturalism in the U.S.: Cultural Narcissism and the Politics of Recognition

By  Stanley Renshon , February 8, 2011 Multiculturalism in the United States has a long silent history. The United States has, from its founding, taken in immigrants from different cultural backgrounds, many of whom were, at the time, controversial. First, it was the Germans who raised questions about whether they could or would become “real […]