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Der halluzinierte Zustand eines ethnisch homogenen Milieus ist allerdings weder für die etablierte Mehrheit noch für die dazugekommene Minderheit aufrechtzuerhalten.
Heinz Bude • Gesellschaft der Angst (German Edition)
In the New World, things seemed in a constant ascent. My parents weren’t drawn to the United States by any specific dream, just a chance for something different. Even then, they understood that American life is unbounded promise and hypocrisy, faith and greed, new spectrums of joy and self-doubt, freedom enabled by enslavement. All of these things
... See moreHua Hsu • Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
He was among the 2,900 Indian scientists and engineers who obtained green cards in 1970, the largest cohort of skilled technical "brains" from any country in a single year since 1950. He was twenty-eight years old, like nearly half of the scientists and engineers entering the United States in the late 1960s. Like him, most skilled immigrants were
... See moreMinal Hajratwala • Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents
‘There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.’
Bill McGuire • Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide
