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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; Cultural Values</title>
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		<title>&#8220;Last Train Home&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Who doesn&#39;t want to see their kids prosperous?&#8221; says the mother of Qin and Yang in the documentary, Last Train Home. This is a refrain begun earlier by the grandmother: &#8220;But who doesn&#39;t want their children to live a good life?&#8221; If we are to believe the mother and the grandmother, prosperity and the good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Multiculturalism in the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first part of this two-part essay on the anti-multiculturalism movement in Europe and United States, I attempted to carefully note that the backlash against multiculturalism was far more niched against specific groups&#8212;the Muslims in Europe and the UK and the Hispanics in the United States. I did not mean to suggest, however, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Anti-Multiculturalism Movement&#8211;Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Blog Post is the first of a two-part article on anti-multiculturalism in Europe and the United States. It doesn&#39;t take a rocket scientist to know that multiculturalism is under severe attack throughout many Western countries, including the United States. UK&#39;s Prime Minister, David Cameron, gave an impassioned speech in Munich advocating what he called, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Commodification of America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 21:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;&#8220;Business&#8212;that&#39;s easily defined: it&#39;s other people&#39;s money&#8221; (Peter Drucker); &#8220;The social responsibility of Business is to increase profits&#8221; (Milton Friedman); &#8220;First amendment never shows why freedom of speech&#8230;.did not include the freedom to speak in association with other individuals, including association in the corporate form&#8221; (Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia in Citizens United v Federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Egalitarianism</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/egalitarianism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently became a member of a group (three&#39;s a group, right?) that has been having an online discussion about issues brought up in a video-taped dialogue about egalitarianism. The taped conversation had its bright moments when one of the philosophers stated that she knew a colleague who had left Southern California because, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saints Don&#8217;t Get Angry</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/1055/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a family of screamers, duckers, fighters, and scramblers. If that didn&#39;t work, my family withdrew into icy silence. That&#39;s what we thought bedrooms were for: our little caves of isolation where we could get our way in frozen-lake invisibility. If that didn&#39;t work, we could always go to plan B: smart-ass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shroud of Fatalism</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/the-shroud-of-fatalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the&#160;second in a series of blog posts in which I expand upon key concepts from my&#160; e-book,&#160; &#34;A Recovery Journey:&#160; The Beginnings&#34; So, you have &#160;a great day at school. Your teachers laugh at your jokes. You get a 95 on your math exam. You talk to one of your teachers during lunch. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Mind and Your Job Won&#8217;t Do It</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/knowledge-and-careers-the-great-stiflers/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/knowledge-and-careers-the-great-stiflers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of blog posts in which I expand upon key concepts from my  e-book,  &#8220;A Recovery Journey:  The Beginnings&#8221; Knowledge has always been important to me. I grew up believing that if I knew things, I wouldn&#8217;t be invisible, especially in a family where high drama and chronic volatility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coitus Interruptus</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/coitus-interruptus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Now that I&#8217;ve got your attention. It took me a long time to discover that I had learned, from early childhood, to be a detached observer. I was the youngest of five children. My family was in constant turmoil. My parents argued all the time. My two older brothers were always fighting. And my mother&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poverty in America</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/poverty-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/poverty-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 03:28:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Will You Still Love Me When I&#39;m Broke &#160;&#8220;Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.&#8221; These words, we are told, were spoken by Christ and comprise only one of the eight beatitudes. Some linguists and theologians claim that &#8220;poor in spirit&#8221; refers to spiritual emptiness, pride, the absence [...]]]></description>
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