Increasing global
insularity is having little impact in curbing Africa's development agenda.
A relatively small change thanks, once again, to the dollar's privileged
insularity. For comparison, in Mexico, a 10-percent peso depreciation would raise consumer prices by 1.38-1.59 percentage points.
The same is true of cosmopolitanism versus
insularity. We may admire leaders who make efforts to increase their followers' sense of moral duties beyond borders, but it does little good to hold leaders to an impossible standard that would undercut their capacity to remain leaders.
My aim in this essay is to suggest a notion of religious knowledge that respects the challenge of the
insularity problem.
In a place where you cannot eat or work without reaching outside your racial or ethnic community - where community
insularity is impossible - the opportunity to isolate yourself and dehumanize another ethnic or racial community becomes difficult.
If Jewish life cannot thrive in an open environment of opportunity, choice, freethinking, affluence, success, and first-class statusif we really do need tsuris, czars, pogroms, poverty,
insularity, closed minds, and anti-Semitism to keep us Jewishthen Jewish life as we know it will not, and should not, survive the first half of the twenty-first century.
An international symposium on the influence of
insularity on arts and handicrafts innovation will be held next July 19.
But, as Canete declares in the introduction of her well structured work, all three (a perfect number--three writers, three islands) of these figures manifest the specific subthemes of exile she wants to explore: cultural
insularity, race, nationality, the politics of the islands in conjunction with the fraught politics of Spain in the aftermath of a devastating war, geography (a lost geography and a found one) as a motivation for writing.
Recommendations are offered for a) institutions of higher education to alleviate the
insularity of their campuses and for b) the foreign-born faculty themselves to use their foreignness as an asset.
AMERICA is a land of
insularity with an innate superiority complex based solely on Hollywood's version of history and Washington's belief in the right of might.
Does he not realise it is precisely this disease of
insularity and 'I'm alright Jack' attitude that will ruin racing in the UK?
