That Australia should not blindly adopt American practices. Ocker, easy-going, fair, honest. These characteristics are considered typically Australian. Compare them to the American image: smart, fast, cunning, high stressed and you will see how very opposed the two cultures really are. If yo...

Immigration, into the United States, both legal and illegal is one of the most controversial issues in our society. Contrary to the popular belief that the United States has relatively open borders there are many restrictive laws limiting immigration and naturalization of citizens, often ...

Paedophilia has risen to epidemic proportions in Australia. Although there is no hard empirical evidence, the enormous surge of recent attention on the abuse of children by priests suggests that there is an even bigger endemic in the Australian church. The psychological damage to victims of child se...

"Saving California Languages" By Katharine Whittmore Author Katharine Whittmore is a journalist whose work has been published in many of the country's leading magazines. While editing "American Retrospective Series", she became interested in the loss of Native America...

Globalization and the National Sovereignty During the 1990s, the globalization emerged as one of the central terms in political conflict and political analysis around the world. In political science, globalization became perhaps the most widely used phrase to characterize the social, economic, and ...

- RACISM - "When we look at modern man we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance, we've learned to fly like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fi...

Someone once said success has a price, while prosperity has a value. When comparing this statement with the benefits and pitfalls of Western expansionism, it is easy to conclude that in many cases the price that was stipulated by overpowering Western expansionism was indeed too high for the...

American values are a tricky thing. It seems that the value set changes with each individual. "American pragmatism is actually rooted in deeply held anti-authoritarian, individualistic, egalitarian, activist ideals, which privilege personal choice, flexibility, and technical efficiency with the ...

It's Only Hair In today's society, many people tend to judge someone by a certain way they dress, wear their hair, and even how they act. Individuals today have a big problem with copying other people's style and techniques. You may not know this, but fashion also involves more th...