Languages (was Re: [Sca-cooks] globetrotting)

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Ah, the wonderful world of deconstructionism . . .

    Sieggy, never constructed to begin with

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>Not to mention the wave of immigration of the second half of the
>nineteenth century. Riis has recently come under some fire, though,
>as being both a sensationalist (it's been alleged that some of his
>more tawdry photographs of tenement life were either posed or the
>result of bursting in, with help from police, on families in the
>middle of the night) and somewhat patronizing to those who did not
>pull themselves by their bootstrings, as he had done (although Riis'
>poverty was somewhat self-inflicted). He had some uncomplementary
>things to say about certain immigrant groups which, today, would be
>regarded as simple racism.
>
>However, the without whom none, etc.
>
>Adamantius