These dances have black origins and are regularly described in terms used to stereotype black women: they are overly sexual, animalistic, uncivilised.
In real life, he wrote a "Confession of Faith" while he was at Oxford, arguing that a secret society should be formed "with but one object the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole uncivilised world under British rule for the recovery of the United States for the making the Anglo-Saxon race but one Empire".
He would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark ... ") As for City Jet's official slogan – "the end to uncivilised travel" – that would now appear to need tweaking for trading standards purposes.
As one academic put it, they depicted Irish people as uncivilised, "to show how English rule could be used to benefit the Irish".
The same is true of chemicals, and civilised countries do not use chemical weapons either.But uncivilised countries do, and so do terrorists.
Moreover, he breezily dismissed the recent flurry of speculation that Israel might attack Iran's nuclear facilities before the American presidential election in November.A few days later, in his actual speech to the UN, he blasted "the uncivilised Zionists" for "intimidating" Iran.
Civilisation was uncivilised and economic growth was destroying, not creating, the things in life that were of real value.A new sort of luxuryIn the 20th century it was certainly true that economic growth was destroying nature at an unprecedented rate.
Then there are those day trips when you fly in to town at some ungodly early hour and are scheduled to fly out at an equally uncivilised late one; how much more pleasant if you could pop your head down for a few hours in the afternoon?
"The greatest civilising power that can be brought to bear on these uncivilised Europeans crowding into our cities lies in the public bath", declared the Chicago Free Bath and Sanitary League in 1897.By itself, the construction of public baths was not enough to persuade people to go and wash in them.
Hamas is unlikely to accept Israel or to work towards a sustainable peace agreement today, tomorrow or ten years from now.Edie Molot Bellevue, WashingtonSmooth industrial relationsSIR – How uncivilised, if the wave of "boss-napping" in France is indeed sinister ("Vive la différence!", May 9th).
How dare the outside world, runs the refrain of a legion of Chinese bloggers, lecture China about uncivilised behaviour Of course, the antics of unruly demonstrators in Paris cannot be used to condone or justify Chinese repression in Tibet.
