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Even Billy's upbringing — an expert lip-reader, Billy was never taught to sign; instead, he struggles to speak words he can't properly hear — is a family choice, a sort of imperialism, designed to hold him to the family's élitist standards.
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It is worth remembering that the EU began as a peace project, designed to overcome Europe's sorry history of fascism, imperialism and war.
This museum's building was designed for the 1931 Paris Colonial Exposition, and its elaborate murals are unabashed celebrations of French imperialism.
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It cannot be surpassed in typographical beauty – in its artistic splendor – in its general imperialism of thought and design.
But a ferocious feud erupted over a blog post by the American design commentator Bruce Nussbaum titled: "Is humanitarian design the new imperialism?" It isn't, at least not if it is intelligently conceived and executed in collaboration with the people it is intended to benefit, rather than being foisted upon them.
The recent row over "Is humanitarian design the new imperialism?" was triggered by the spectacle of well-meaning designers striding guilelessly into the political booby traps of economic development.
The U.S. design commentator Bruce Nussbaum summed up the problem in a 2010 blog post with the self-explanatory title: "Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism?" Eco-Fuel Africa provides a useful counterpoint to that stereotype.
Pioneering in its research, this book offers valuable insights for art and design historians, historians of imperialism and anthropology, anthropologists, and museologists.
Humanitarian design isn't the new imperialism, it's the new compassion".
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