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Nicknaming, it seems fair to conclude, is an activity that has long delighted and entertained all Americans--white, colored, hyphenated, and just plain--and the fiercely contested clash over “Indian” nicknames appears to be largely due to overzealous activism and misdirected social reform.
A front-page LAT piece observes that there are a number of anniversaries coming up in China this year that could stimulate popular political expression and the government's repression of same: the 10th anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, the 20th anniversary of the Democracy Wall, the People's Republic of China's 50th birthday, and the 80th anniversary of student activism in China.
Compare 1999 China with 1979 China: 1999 China permits vast economic freedom, sponsors competitive village elections, allows the establishment of nongovernmental organizations, tolerates environmental and women's rights activism, and is starting to develop a reliable legal system.
And for genuine activism.
Yet simultaneously, there was the social activism of the Warren Court, and a national administration moved to declare a more worthy campaign in 1964: the War on Poverty.