I find it foolish and unsmart for someone who is a diplomat and goes over to another country and show rude behavior toward feigners. It is unacceptable and should not be tolerated, however, there are some examples of good diplomatic behavior throughout The Ugly American which I will discuss. Diplomats who are disbursed to other regions are representations of their home countries, therefore you can either be a good representation or a bad one perhaps. Diplomat’s jobs are very important because everything they do and say reflect their home country, and foreigners picture all U.S citizens based off of the diplomatic representative’s personalities and how they treat others. American ambassador Father Finian shows good “diplomatic behavior” in …show more content…
It seems that Burdick and Lederer uses MacWhites behavior to show that he is tired and is getting eager and impatient to gain power over Russia, ambassador MacWhite receives multiple complaints from the secretary about MacWhites recent mistakes. “You then took a leave of absence. I recived complaints from atleast two ambassadors in different Asian countries because you had trod on their toes. As you know, Gilbert, I have been to dissolve the excessive protocol in the foreign service; but your adventures around Dien Bien Phu were really somewhat more extravagant than one would think necessary on a trip to gain orientation and background.” Burdick and Lederer uses MacWhites behaivor to portray how difficult and stressing MacWhites job was. MacWhite replies to the secretary with several demands, he even threatens to resign if his ideas aren’t accepted considered. “I am now prepared to ask you in all humility to allow me to do several things in Sarkhan. If you do not see your way clear to permit these actions, I shall regretfully resign from the Foreign Service. If you are not able to grant them, I think there is a better than even chance that I can save Sarkhan from communisim. If I am successful, perhaps my experience will serve as a model.” It’s not like MacWhite was careless because he wasn’t, it seems that he was just impaitiant and was ready to give up. I
He thinks that he is doing his duty for Afghanistan. Assef's brow twitched. " Like pride in your people, your customs, your language. Afghanistan is like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage, and someone has to take out the garbage.” “That's what you were doing in Mazar, going door-to-door?
Barbarese, Dove, and Ball all used enormously different attitudes to push their arguments forward. In Barbarese’s “The Nine Rings of JFK”, the reader could feel a scandalizing and controversial type of nature from the start. Not many write about or display President Kennedy like how Barbarese chose to do. Whether you would like to debate if he presented the President in a positive or negative light, one must say that the author was pushing for a controversial feeling. Barbarese makes the beloved President come off very smug and almost evil at times. Using writing quotes such as “The President is improvising a new grin. His words leave a smoke trail over the heads of fellow Americans.” (71), Barbarese gives JFK the trait of an immoral and deceptive person that is not the person that is normally thought of when President John F. Kennedy enters one’s mind. Pairing his tone and point of view we can see that the author was pushing the argument of JFK of being a normal man that was not a mythical hero-type figure at all. He greatly differs from the ideas of the average American
... this point, McMurphy's fate is fulfilled. He committed an open revolt against the authority and failed. It is not questionable what retaliation he can expect. Although he has tried to change and reform the world of the ward around him with peaceful and cunning manner, he failed. The institution (and its embodiment in Nurse Ratched) does not tolerate any deviation from what she considers correct.
A notion that still holds strong today, Fredrick Jackson Turner’s idea of American character was one based on trials and experiences. Unlike Crevecour, Turner believed that American character was not simply a product of English character transported to America, but rather another idea altogether (Faragher 63). He expressed this opinion the best when he said, “In the crucible of the frontier the immigrants were Americanized, liberated, and fused into a mixed race, English in neither nationality nor characteristics” (Faragher 64). How exactly did American character form and what defines it? Turner answered this question with the Turner thesis, using the concept of the pioneer and the immigrants who followed him to explain the western frontier and its expansion (Faragher 70). The following paragraphs will help describe how American character has manifested itself in today’s society by integrating ideas from Frederick Jackson Turner, Charles Wilson Peale, and heroes depicted in different forms of entertainment during the rise and fall of the western frontier.
Fowler constructs Pyle as a naïve young man who is an innocent victim of dogmatic and simplistic ideologies. Fowler sees American culture and Democracy as a corrupting influence on an innocent Pyle. This is exhibited th relational processes, where Pyle, as the carrier, is given attributes such as “innocent”, “young and ignorant and silly”. This innocence is highlight by contrasting it with the attribute of “the whole pack of them”, Fowlers serotypes of Americans.
McMurphy’s recognizes that his goal of salvation for the residents of the ward will not be achievable without removing all personal profit. McMurphy can not just “get the best of” the Ratched and win a bet he made with Harding, but rather extract her from the ward. When wondering what earnings McMurphy was gaining from rebelling against Ratched, Bromden thinks, “the guys were beginning to ask, what’s in it for ol’ Mack” (223). The realization that McMurphy is not gaining any personal value illustrates his selflessness. Furthermore, McMurphy recognizes that if he tries to wholly extract Ratched, he could receive a lobotomy. “McMurphy even had a petition in the mail to someone back in Washington, asking that they look into the lobotomies and electroshock that were still going on in government hospitals” (222). Finally, when the patients discover that Billy Bibbit has killed himself, Chief Bromden understands that McMurphy was defying the Nurse for him and the other patients the whole time. Bromden sees McMurphy rise up and walk into the nurse’s office and thinks “We couldn’t stop him because we were the ones making him do it. It wasn’t the nurse that was forcing him, it was our need that was making him push himself slowly up from sitting” (271). McMurphy filling the need of the patients displays that his sacrifice was not for himself. Hence, analyzing why McMurphy sacrificed himself is crucial to perceive him as a Christ
have to act upon Henderson’s faults if the war is to be won. Swift, the
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt claim in their article “The Coddling of the American Mind” that the “vindictive protectiveness” to protect the college students by avoiding “microaggression’ and the usage of ‘trigger warnings’ are not going to help the students adapt to ‘the world with potential offenses.’
Following the Path to One’s Own Happiness Hannah W. Foster uses incredible language in her novel published in 1797, The Coquette. This novel, made up of letters, allows the audience to fully understand what was expected of women during this time, the restraints on the women, and how women were seen and treated when not following the rules of how to be a proper woman. During this time period woman were to get married, take care of the house and domestic duties, and to produced children that could carry on the family name. Eliza Wharton, the protagonist in the novel, does not want to conform to society and be the domestic lady that everyone else thinks she should be. She does not want to conform because she believes that marriage is the end
To start off with, Malcolm, who is young boy, is faced with the death of his father and being called a traitor of the realm. First, imagine how Malcolm feels. He knows that someone has killed his father, and that there is nothing in this world that could bring his father back to him. Also Malcolm is not stupid, he knows that the person who killed his father is mostly likely going to try and kill him next. Next, imagine how Malcolm feels having to run from the country which he has called home since he was a babe—the country that was supposed to be his when he grew up. Now in this moment Malcolm has to make a choice. “Will I weep over my father’s death or will I rise up, be a man, and take back the throne?” Luckily for Malcolm the choice was easy, considering he had a wise man like Macduff on his side. As known to all who have read Macbeth, Malcolm chooses to be man and take back his father’s kingdom. However, he still ha...
| Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude,| I have no relish of them, but abound | In the division of each several crime, | Acting it many ways. Nay, had I power, I should | Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, | Uproar the universal peace, confound |All unity on earth.” In these lines, Malcolm is telling Macduff that a leader, for example,
“That was all I needed, I'd made a contact, and it was as though his voice was that of them all. I was wound up, nervous. I might have been anyone, might have been trying to speak in a foreign language. For I couldn't remember the correct words and phrases from the pamphlets. I had to fall back upon tradition and since it was a political meeting, I selected one of the political techniques that I'd heard so often at home: The old down-to-earth, I'm-sick-and-tired-of-the-way-they've-been-treating-us-approach.
American and Japanese ways of speaking are so different that they often cause culture shock to both Americans and Japanese who visit each other's country. Most Japanese who come to the United States are at first shocked and have a problem with the American direct way of speaking.
When Plato once wrote, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”, he inquired that the perception of beauty is subjective. According to Merriam-Webster, beauty is defined as the quality or aggregate of qualities in a person or thing that gives pleasure to the senses or pleasurably exalts the mind or spirit. In modern times, beauty is simply perceived as having an appealing face and stick-thin figure. In different cultures, beauty can be defined in many forms. Through fairy-tale stories and movies from Hollywood, most people, especially women, have learned the stereotype that beautiful people like the protagonists are good, and ugly people like the antagonists are bad.
In a rigid system of class and colonization, Stevens believes in the master-slave hegemony. Stevens puts “his own interests, indeed his whole existence, in the hands of Lord Darlington”(Guttmann 1991). With Lord Darlington’s the upper-class superiority, his duty is solely “to provide good service” (152) and he will "not to meddle in the great affairs of nation” (153). By devoting his “attention to providing the best possible service to those great gentlemen in whose hands the destiny of civilization truly lies” (153). Stevens believes that great gentlemen like Lord Darlington will the right decision because of their social standing.