the deliberate weakening of social protections has produced greater financial and economic insecurity
Joseph E. Stiglitz considers what 40 years of anti-government, low-tax, deregulatory advocacy have wrought around the world.
people suffering from precarity, which means existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare ... lack of job security
In sociology and economics, the precariat (/prɪˈkɛəriət/) is a neologism for a social class formed by people suffering from precarity, which means existing without predictability or security, affecting material or psychological welfare. The term is a portmanteau merging precarious with proletariat.[1] Unlike the proletariat class of...
蒲公英族（英語：precariat；/prɪˈkɛəriət/)，或譯作「流眾」[1]、「不穩定無產者」[2]、「殆危族」、「飄零族」[3][4]等，在社会学和经济学中，是由飽受不稳定之苦的人组成的階級。蒲公英族是不稳定（precarious）与无产阶级（proletariat）的混成词。 [5][6]...
When you train people to be good in learning the rules, it is harder to have a rebellious spirit ... people who are not afraid to break the norm, to fail a little
SINGAPORE — They have hopped around countries to build up businesses, before settling on Singapore to sink their roots more than 10 years ago. To them, there is no better place than Singapore for entrepreneurs, so much so that one of them, fish farm Barramundi Asia’s managing director Joep Kleine Staarman declares
There is this whole obsession for people to be similar to other people
/what needs changing first is for society to be less critical of those who fare less well academically. “If people are not good in school, don’t write them off. Work on their specialties. Oftentimes, they may be the ones with the potential to be the entrepreneurs of tomorrow/
凡是國內各族都該一視同仁，社會底層處境比原住民還不堪的，大有人在
封路封山為何事 司馬昭之心乎？山不該成為禁臠？※ 我坐在山上默默不語的看著腳下風景，我和北得拉曼山域間說是隔著一場夢，不如說是隔著一重柵欄。有誰能解夢、有誰能撤除柵欄？是山、是雲、是人？我們替被
潛臺詞其實是：爲什麼華人社會要被迫弱肉強食而原住民可以受保護？无怪優惠少數弱勢又因歷史結構有滅絕危機文化的政策在美國台灣爭議不斷，這兩個弱肉強食的社會。要麼原住民也要弱肉強食、文化滅絕就是競爭力不夠，要麼社會轉型成沒太強調各家競爭，合作、整合(integration)
Acculturation is a process of social, psychological, and cultural change that stems from the balancing of two cultures while adapting to the prevailing culture of the society. Acculturation is a process in which an individual adopts, acquires and adjusts to a new cultural environment as a result of being placed into a new culture, or when another...
文化翻譯
More than「八尺門的辯護人」從上週開始，我就被戲劇「八尺門的辯護人」深深吸引。主要的原因不是戲劇的場景就在我家附近的八尺門地區，而是此劇連結多元社會議題的能力，將司法正義，移工，原漢以及漁業經濟發展議題的關切透過戲劇的方式表達出來，真是引人入勝。...
國內所謂的「科技與人文的對話」，幾乎都是外行人的連篇鬼話，無助於溝通，反而平添彼此的誤解與刻板印象。 關鍵在於：對話雙方沒有任何人真的認真跨越藩籬，去深刻地認識另一岸的文化與精髓。 即便是英國 C. P. Snow 著名的演講 " The Two Cultures "...
原出處 《論文寫作完全求生手冊》的〈 附錄二、文化人類學的兩難 〉討論紀爾茲（Clifford Geertz）的代表作 〈厚描：朝向文化的詮釋理論〉，並以他的〈深層遊戲：關於巴厘島鬥雞的記述〉 為例進一步闡述他的論點。 《論文寫作完全求生手冊》原本企圖將每...
