Posts Tagged ‘Europe’
From Italian architecture to American reinvention
Interesting piece by Roger Cohen in the Sunday NY Times that discusses some of the cultural differences between the U.S. and Europe. Cohen begins by talking about an Italian architect who was recently wounded while working in Afghanistan: … his presence in the western city of Herat was somehow comforting, even if what had happened to [...]
Immigration and national identity
It goes without saying that immigrants are central to the U.S. identity. But that doesn’t mean that Americans have always agreed about the issue of immigration. Far from it. Descendants of the early U.S. settlers struggled to assimilate the southern and eastern Europeans that came after them, such as the Italians and the Poles. Today, those immigrant groups are equally [...]
Travel in the Balkans
Nice trio of travel articles in the Sunday Washington Post about the Balkan countries of Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro: But as striking as the panoramas are in this part of the world, there’s something deeper than aesthetics going on. Here, in the overlooked southeastern corner of Europe that once stood for brutal warfare but is [...]
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