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Ian Buruma _ Year Zero: A History of 1945
Gerçekle yüz yüze gelmeyi, çoğu kez hayal kırıklığı izler. Beauvoir'nın anlattığına göre, Sartre ABD'den "bütün gördükleri biraz afallamış" olarak döndü. İnsanlardan elbette hoşlanmış ve Roosevelt'e hayran kalmıştı; ama Beauvoir'nın ifadesiyle "Batı yarıkürenin uygarlığında ekonomik sistem, ayrımcılık ve ırkçılık dışında onu şoka uğratan birçok şey vardı - Amerikalıların tutuculuğu, değerler ölçeği, efsaneleri, iyimserlikleri, her türlü trajik şeyden kaçınışları.
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Ian Buruma _ Year Zero: A History of 1945
Yahudi intikamı siyasal destek görmediği için, hiçbir zaman uygulanamadı. Siyonist liderler savaşla kana bulanmış Avrupa ülkelerinden uzakta, çöl arazisini işleyen ve gururlu yurttaş-askerler olarak düşmanlarıyla çarpışan yiğit İsrailoğulları teması üzerine kurulu farklı türden bir normallik yaratmaya çalıştılar. İçe kapanık bir yaklaşımla geleceğe baktılar. Gerçi o gelecek de katliamla, etnik ve dinsel çatışmayla dolu olacaktı ama dökülen Alman kanı olmayacaktı.
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Ian Buruma _ A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
The Japanese have an expression for human relations that are sticky with the mutual obligations and dependencies of the collective life. They use the English word "wet." Traditional Japanese family relations are "wet." Yakuza gangs are "wet." Behavior that is more detached, more individualistic, often associated with a Western way of life, is "dry." Terayama Shuji was "dry." Kara was most definitely "wet.
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Ian Buruma _ A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
In her prime, she bore a slight resemblance to Liberace, but in a more masculine way
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Ian Buruma _ A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir
I think that Ryu Chishu, or Tanaka Kinuyo, or to be more precise, the imaginary characters they portrayed, were more real to the film buffs than any existing human being. This is why cinephiles are spookier, on the whole, than music lovers or balletomanes. For they are creatures of the dark, getting off on the lives of others.
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Ian Buruma _ Year Zero: The History of 1945
LIBERATION IS PERHAPS not the right word to describe the end of the war in colonial societies. Most Asians were more than happy to be rid of the Japanese, whose "Asian liberation" had turned out to be worse than the Western imperialism it temporarily replaced. But liberation is not quite what the Dutch had in mind for the Dutch East Indies in 1945, or the French for Indochina, or the British for Malaya.
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Ian Buruma _ Murder in Amsterdam: The Death
Without ideology, and with nothing but jobs for the boys at stake, party politics was losing its raison d'être, and trust in the old democratic order could no longer be taken for granted.
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Ian Buruma _ Year Zero: A History of 1945
after all that, after the concentration camps in Germany, after we stated definitely that our former home was changed into a mass grave, we can only grope and clasp with our finger tips the shadows of our dearest and painfully cry: I can never more see my home. The victorious nations that in the 20th century removed the black plague from Europe must understand once and for all the specific Jewish problem. No, we are not Polish when we are born in Poland; we are not Lithuanians even though we once passed through Lithuania; and we are neither Roumanians though we have seen the first time in our life the sunshine in Roumenia. We are Jews!!
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Ian Buruma _ Year Zero: A History of 1945
On May 7 crowds had gathered on Dam Square in the center of Amsterdam in front of the Royal Palace, cheering, dancing, singing, waving the orange flag of the Dutch royal family, in anticipation of the triumphant British and Canadian troops whose arrival was imminent. Watching the happy throng from the windows of a gentlemen's club on the square, German naval officers decided in a last-minute fit of pique to fire into the crowd with a machine gun mounted on the roof. Twenty-two people died, and more than a hundred were badly injured. Even that was not the very last violent act of the war.
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Ian Buruma _ Murder in Amsterdam: The Death
The solution to the Muslim problem is a Muslim Voltaire, a Muslim Nietzsche-that
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Ian Buruma _ Murder in Amsterdam: The Death
Islam may soon become the majority religion in countries whose churches have been turned more and more into tourist sites, apartment houses, theatres, and places of entertainment. The French scholar Olivier Roy is right: Islam is now a European religion.
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Ian Buruma _ Murder in Amsterdam: The Death
Citizenship of a democratic state means living by the laws of the country. A liberal democracy cannot survive when part of the population believes that divine laws trump those made by man.
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