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Andrew Ooi

General election debates: three main news channels reach agreement - Times Online - 0 views

  • Pressure on Gordon Brown to agree to a televised debate between the three party leaders increased when the main news channels proposed a series of debates during the election campaign
  • Negotiations in the build-up to previous elections have been derailed by haggling over the structure of a debate, including the timing of opening speeches, the role of the moderator, and whether questions would be taken unscripted from a studio audience or agreed in advance.
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    A televised debate for UK's elections look more promising as the main news channels have agreed on how the debate will take place.
sayaka uchida

Can a Mother Lose Her Child Because She Doesn't Speak English? - 0 views

  • Can the U.S. government take a woman's baby from her because she doesn't speak English? That's the latest question to arise in the hothouse debate over illegal immigration
  • Can the U.S. government take a woman's baby from her because she doesn't speak English? That's the latest question to arise in the hothouse debate over illegal immigration,
  • Department of Human Services (DHS), which ruled that Baltazar Cruz was an unfit mother in part because her lack of English "placed her unborn child in danger and will place the baby in danger in the future."
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  • The social-services translator also reported that Baltazar Cruz had put RubĂ­ in danger because she "had not brought a cradle, clothes or baby formula." But indigenous Oaxacan mothers traditionally breast feed their babies for a year and rarely use bassinets, carrying their infants instead in a rebozo, a type of sling.
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    Can the U.S. government take a woman's baby from her because she doesn't speak English? That's the latest question to arise in the hothouse debate over illegal immigration,
Christoph Zed

Obama's Kanye West comment sparks debate - 0 views

  • President Barack Obama's candid thoughts about Kanye West are provoking a debate over standards of journalism in the Twitter age.
  • But he said it is broadcast tradition that such pre-interview chatter is considered off the record until the formal interview begins.
  • The incident is reminiscent of past "open-mic" incidents involving politicians
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  • "If you're sitting there with a microphone on, you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy,
  • "The president calling Kanye West a 'jackass' is perfect information for a tweet," she said. "In fact, that's the ideal format. You can do it in 140 characters. There's not much else to say."
fiona hou

Multiculturalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The term multiculturalism generally refers to the acceptance of various cultural divisions for the sake of diversity that applies to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the scale of an organization such as a school, business, neighborhood, city or nation.
  • Australia The response to multiculturalism in Australia has been extremely varied, with a recent wave of criticism against it in the past decade. An anti-immigration party, the One Nation Party, was formed by Pauline Hanson in the late 1990s. The party enjoyed significant electoral success for a while, most notably in its home state of Queensland, but is now electorally marginalized. One Nation called for the abolition of multiculturalism on the grounds that it represented "a threat to the very basis of the Australian culture, identity and shared values", arguing that there was "no reason why migrant cultures should be maintained at the expense of our shared, national culture."[83] A Federal Government proposal in 2006 to introduce a compulsory citizenship test, which would assess English skills and knowledge of Australian values, sparked renewed debate over the future of multiculturalism in Australia. Andrew Robb, then Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, told a conference in November 2006 that some Australians worried the term "multicultural" had been transformed by interest groups into a philosophy that put "allegiances to original culture ahead of national loyalty, a philosophy which fosters separate development, a federation of ethnic cultures, not one community". He added: "A community of separate cultures fosters a rights mentality, rather than a responsibilities mentality. It is divisive. It works against quick and effective integration."[84] The Australian citizenship test commenced in October 2007 for all new citizens between the ages of 18 and 60.[85] In January 2007 the Howard Government removed the word "multicultural" from the name of t
  • The response to multiculturalism in Australia has been extremely varied, with a recent wave of criticism against it in the past decade. An anti-immigration party, the One Nation Party , was formed by Pauline Hanson in the late 1990s. The party enjoyed significant electoral success for a while, most notably in its home state of Queensland , but is now electorally marginalized. One Nation called for the abolition of multiculturalism on the grounds that it represented "a threat to the very basis of the Australian culture, identity and shared values", arguing that there was "no reason why migrant cultures should be maintained at the expense of our shared, national culture." [83] A Federal Government proposal in 2006 to introduce a compulsory citizenship test, which would assess English skills and knowledge of Australian values, sparked renewed debate over the future of multiculturalism in Australia. Andrew Robb , then Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, told a conference in November 2006 that some Australians worried the term "multicultural" had been transformed by interest groups into a philosophy that put "allegiances to original culture ahead of national loyalty, a philosophy which fosters separate development, a federation of ethnic cultures, not one community". He added: "A community of separate cultures fosters a rights mentality, rather than a responsibilities mentality. It is divisive. It works against quick and effective integration." [84] The Australian citizenship test commenced in October 2007 for all new citizens between the ages of 18 and 60. [85] In January 2007 the Howard Government removed the word "multicultural" from the name of t he Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, changing its name to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
xinning ji

Globalization - 0 views

  • Multinational corporations manufacture products in many countries and sell to consumers around the world. Money, technology and raw materials move ever more swiftly across national borders.
  • The term globalization encompasses a range of social, political, and economic changes. Within the section Defining Globalization, we provide an introduction to the key debates on this issue. The materials look at the main features of globalization, asking what is new, what drives the process, how it changes politics, and how it affects global institutions like the UN.
  • Cases of Globalization explore the various manifestations of interconnectedness in the world, noting how globalization affects real people and places.
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      the influence of globalization could be either beneficial or harmful. on the one hand, through the Internet, we view the world, travel to the world, and experice the world. on the other hand, however, like the image on the left hand side, the improvement of technology made a gap between rich and poor bigger and bigger. even though developed countries try to help developing countries, such as Africa, the unequal distince between each other is obvious and hard to reach in a fair position because the poor nations are far more behind the rich.
Wye Keen Wong

UCLA Center for Chinese Studies: Changing Images of the Global - 0 views

  • They have come to recognize that the modern world is always changing, sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, sometimes suddenly.
  • assessing China's future place in the multidimensional global carefully because the consequences of bad mistakes could be disastrous.
  • He has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of Chinese from China, because it is inaccurate and has been used to perpetuate fears of a "Chinese threat."
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      I accept the term diaspora as is, though this statement has now thrown certain ideas I had into new lights. Clearly a issue of the politics of terminology - this demonstrates the need to define your interpretation of the teminology you use in statements/arguments. I wonder sometimes whether debate over the use of words and terminology themselves can detract from the 'real' issue - or perhaps they are inseparable?
Maria D'Amato

Melbourne's population hits 4 million - 0 views

  • The Bureau of Statistics says Australia's annual net migration soared in the first three months of this year to 278,000 - up from just 100,000 five years ago.
  • MELBOURNE'S population has reached 4 million and Australia's is surging towards 22 million, according to new figures that have sparked fresh debate about the impact of record migration.
  • Victoria's population jumped 112,000 in the year to March. Assuming Melbourne has kept its share, the city is expanding by an unprecedented 90,000 people a year, or more than 1700 a week.
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  • While population growth has kept the economy growing and house prices rising this year, it has also put pressure on public transport and other services - especially as the growth is being driven by international students.
  • Government figures at the end of July showed that in five years, total international student numbers have almost doubled from 288,400 to 547,663.
xuejiao lin

The changing web of Chinese nationalism - 1 views

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    Nowadays, Chinese people are enjoying greater freedom of speech and access to Internet. Both external environment and domestic development contribute to this. As in the new nationalism that forbidden by authorized government, the changing web of Chinese nationalism is such a powerful tool that inspires people to observe and thought independently. It also creates online nationalism, which could be considered as a growing potential turbulence.
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    I agree what you talked about the online nationalism of Chinese as a growing potential turbulence. In fact, there are a lot of cases showing the trend of the ' growing potentail turbulence'. The debate between Chinese governement and the Melbourne Film Festival on the documentary of Rebiya Kadeer (The 10 Conditions of Love) has led to breakdown of Film Festival's offical site. People believed that the site has hacked by Chinese hacker. I believe that the Chinese nationalism is obviously leading to an online nationalism which may impact on both positive and negative sides.
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