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More perversely, we also expect social equality--nobody is better than anyone else, we all play by the same rules--when the characteristic of previous human society has been the instinctive ranking by status.
Critics praise Goodman's finely honed descriptive abilities and "instinctive grasp of familial dynamics, the ways in which dreams and emotional habits are handed down ...
In a front-page opinion piece Sunday titled "The Spectre of Vietnam," La Repubblica U.S. bureau chief Vittorio Zucconi wrote that despite the instinctive patriotic solidarity that would accompany the president into battle, "the United States isn't marching into war against Saddam; it is being dragged."
According to the great Danish linguist, Otto Jespersen, there are five theories to account for the origin of language: the bow-wow theory, in which speech imitated animal calls; the pooh-pooh theory, in which people made instinctive sounds through physical or emotional reactions; the dingdong theory, in which people reacted to the environment; the yo-he-ho theory, in which people spoke when working together; and the la-la theory, in which speech arose from the romantic side of life.
In European countries, the instinctive reply is "the government."