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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; Cultural Values</title>
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		<title>Gods and Graven Images</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every so often, I return to thinking about the Ten Commandments. In those revisits, I continue to discover how far removed I am from those ancient Christian tenets I grew up with as a child. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” says the first commandment. This is the I-am-the-leader-of-the-pack commandment telling humanity that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Moneyball,&#8221; A Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baseball, says one sports commentator, has to be won “on the field.” He goes on to comment: “You have to steal. You have to punt. You have to sacrifice. You have to have men in a scoring position. You gotta bring &#8216;em in.” “You don&#8217;t do that with a bunch of statistics,” he continues. Later [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Filthy Lucre</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog-post is a kind of no-brainer. It is about money. But it is also about all the things that many of us encounter in our relationship with money: financial insecurity, freedom, autonomy, gratification, ownership, deferring payments, borrowing, owing anonymous institutions&#8212;unless we&#8217;re out on the street, we, in America, are all in on it Money, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Controlling Caretaker</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No problem. How much do you need to borrow?&#8221; This is not an atypical response of a caretaker. Someone asks the caretaker for money. The caretaker responds simply and to the point. And the response is positive. Caretakers are like that. Suspend your disbelief for a few seconds, however, and listen to how another type [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sin Nombre, A Film Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 18:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Crossing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mexican gangs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making a fictional film about a social issue is not easy. If it&#8217;s a dark satire like “Dr Strangelove,” or “Catch 22,” or even “One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest,” the viewer always gets the feeling in the pit of their stomach that there is something not right with the world, that some impending dark [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Eyes Have It</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, I was informed by my ophthalmologist that the cataract in my left eye had reached London-fog level. “We&#8217;ll remove the other cataract in a month,” he said. I knew I was at a critical point with my vision. I could read most of the large signs as long as they had polar-bear-size [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Last Train Home&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/international-film/1169/</link>
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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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		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Migrant Worker]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Who doesn&#8217;t want to see their kids prosperous?” says the mother of Qin and Yang in the documentary, Last Train Home. This is a refrain begun earlier by the grandmother: “But who doesn&#8217;t want their children to live a good life?” If we are to believe the mother and the grandmother, prosperity and the good life [...]]]></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>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/the-anti-multiculturalism-movement-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/the-anti-multiculturalism-movement-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/the-commodification-of-america/</link>
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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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