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– Multiethnicity: the dead end quest
Consumerism  - Ethnic diversity  - Individualism  
Lyrical flights and historical malaise     Barack Obama promised Monday that his inauguration as the first black president of the United States would “renew the promise” of the American dream. “Tomorrow, we will come together as one, on the plaza where (Martin Luther) King’s dream continues to resonate. In doing so, we recognize that here in America, our destinies are inextricably intertwined,” writes he said in...Read More >>

– Election of Obama: a historic malaise
Ethnic diversity  - United States  
Dangerous Illusions Barack Obama, whose Americans have just made their first black president, won 52% of the vote nationally against 46% for his Republican opponent John McCain, American media reported on Wednesday. It is the first time a Democrat has won a majority of the popular vote since Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Mr. Obama did so with the highest score since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. Mr. Obama received 62.98 million votes and M . McCain 55.78 million, according to NBC. Figures similar to those of the Fox News channel, w...Read More >>

– Subprime crisis: the causes
Consumerism  - Credit bubble  - Euro currency  
Economy and political agenda Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz judges that "the subprime crisis is not over" in the United States and Europe, and that this crisis is linked to the surge in oil and food prices, in an interview with the French newspaper Release Saturday. “The subprime crisis”, American subprime mortgage loans, “is not over”, affirms Mr. Stiglitz, explaining that with the fall of the real estate market in the United States, more and more Americans find themselves unable to repay ...Read More >>

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