Assimilation, not success, is the American end game.
It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture.
You can call double-eyelid surgery wrong or see it as evidence of body dysmorphia, but don't overplay the race issue. It's insulting to those of us who are merely vain.
Can you think of a single situation, no matter how grave, where the atmosphere would not be instantly shattered with a loud fart - or a drawing of a butt? There is no faster way to create universal common ground.
As I found again and again as a writer, when you're completely honest about something, people respond to that.
Bad things happen when you try to let things just happen. You can't be passive.
I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.
I think we've gotten to a point where we're becoming really sensitive to things like body dysmorphia, but I think it's gone too far, where people are accusing everyone of hating themselves.
First, one scrambles for wealth. Then, one luxuriates in mocking the effeteness that comes with it.
It was not a secret, then or now, that there is something vaguely un-American about forcing your child to be really good at classical music performance.
As the saying goes, even a broken clock is right twice a day; that doesn't mean you should run out and buy one.
