"Economic girlie men has come to adopt its own meaning.
Not only do they adopt local customs and costumes, but they also get accepted as friends and neighbours," he said.
"We might try and adopt a quick technological fix but one that holds the worst impacts for a few decades without much attention to what happens after that.
Human rights activists and politicians in South Africa, for instance, closely studied German trials, public commemoration and schoolbooks; and the Chinese admonished Japan that, in dealing with the second world war, it should adopt the "German model".
Refusing to adopt the traditional role of editor as de haut en bas authority, Hamilton has achieved something that feels not unlike a crowdsourced anthology.
Western-style adoptions and cross-cultural families are rare in Qatar, and a report by Qatari police earlier raised questions about why the Huangs, who are of Asian descent, would adopt children who did not share their "hereditary traits".
SNH also stated that it thought we should all adopt a "pragmatic" approach.
He made the claim at PMQs as he challenged Cameron to adopt the proposals to curb rent rises unveiled by Labour last week.
But the organisation has itself come under fire from critics who argue that it has forced countries such as Greece to adopt unsustainable debt repayment programmes, undermining their recovery.
His supporters on the left, meanwhile, believe this is why the president should adopt stronger language on the issue of economic inequality, whether or not he can find policy prescriptions to match.
Do we assume that the views we hold are ones that, with enough persuasion, everyone will come to adopt?
