In early 1776, Thomas Paine argued in the closing pages of the first edition of Common Sense that the “ custom of nations ” demanded a formal declaration of American independence if any European power were to mediate a peace between the Americans and Great Britain.

Foreign courts needed to have American grievances laid before them persuasively in a “ manifesto ” which could also reassure them that the Americans would be reliable trading partners.

A surprise attack from the Americans would destroy much of the Soviet ICBM fleet, allowing SDI to defeat a “ ragged ” Soviet retaliatory response.

“ A corporation is described to be a person in a political capacity created by the law, to endure in perpetual succession .” Americans in the 1790s knew of a variety of corporations established for various purposes, including those of commerce, education, and religion.

“ In one of the most telling complaints, a majority ( 54 %) of Americans believe the news media gets in the way of society solving its problems ,” Pew reported.

In The Abolition of Britain, Peter Hitchens says: “ What Americans describe with the casual phrase.

“ It is estimated that Italians eat over sixty pounds of pasta per person, per year, easily beating Americans, who eat about twenty pounds per person .” Pasta is so beloved in the nation of Italy that individual consumption exceeds the average production of wheat of the country ; thus Italy frequently imports wheat for pasta making.

Early New England laws banning the sale of alcohol to Native Americans were criticized because it was “ not fit to deprive Indians of any lawfull comfort aloweth to all men by the use of wine .” Laws banned the practice of individuals toasting each other, with the explanation that it led to wasting God's gift of beer and wine, as well as being carnal.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon changed the focus of the racial profiling debate from street crime and “ driving while Black ” to terrorism and “ flying while Arab .” According to a June 4 – 5, 2002 FOX News / Opinion Dynamics Poll, 54 % of Americans approved of using “ racial profiling to screen Arab male airline passengers .” A 2002 survey by Public Agenda tracked the attitudes toward the racial profiling of Blacks and people of Middle Eastern descent.

In this survey, 52 % of Americans said there was “ no excuse ” for law enforcement to look at African Americans with greater suspicion and scrutiny because they believe they are more likely to commit crimes, but only 21 % said there was “ no excuse ” for extra scrutiny of Middle Eastern people.

In his pamphlet Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America ( 1784 ), Franklin deplored the use of the term " savages " for native Americans: “ Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility ; they think the same of theirs ”.

Although Charles Dickens had ridiculed positive depictions of Native Americans as portrayals of so-called " noble " savages, he made an exception ( at least initially ) in the case of the Inuit, whom he called “ loving children of the north ”, “ forever happy with their lot ,” “ whether they are hungry or full ”, and “ gentle loving savages ”, who, despite a tendency to steal, have a “ quiet, amiable character ” (" Our Phantom Ship on an Antediluvian Cruise ", Household Words, April 16, 1851 ).

According to a New York Times article, “ More Americans Rejecting Marriage in 50s and Beyond ”, in the past 20 years, the divorce rate has increased over 50 % amongst the baby boomers.

By far, the largest proportion of respondents in the three countries ( 74 % in Canada, 67 % in Britain and 63 % in the United States ) said that conversations with friends were “ very useful ” or “ moderately useful .” The next reputable source was the media ( television, books, movies, magazines ), mentioned by three-in-five Britons ( 65 %) and Canadians ( 62 %) and more than half of Americans ( 54 %) as useful.

Upon learning of Diệm's ouster and assassination, Hồ Chí Minh reportedly stated: “ I can scarcely believe the Americans would be so stupid .” The North Vietnamese Politburo was more explicit :“ The consequences of the 1 November coup d ' état will be contrary to the calculations of the U. S. imperialists ... Diệm was one of the strongest individuals resisting the people and Communism.

The drafters played on fears of “ drug-crazed, sex-mad negroes ” and made references to Negroes under the influence of drugs murdering whites, degenerate Mexicans smoking marijuana, and “ Chinamen ” seducing white women with drugs.

Doniphan informed the Navajo that all their land now belonged to the United States, and the Navajo and New Mexicans were the “ children of the United States ”.

The first Mexican cholo youth groups came about in the early 1990s, and were called by various names, such as “ barrios ,” " ssc ", “ clickas ” and “ gangas ,” and typically seen as American Hispanics, not as Mexicans because of their dress and appearance, which has never been traditional to Mexico.

Among language minorities in the United States – for example, groups such as Mexicans, Koreans, Italians, Chinese, or deaf users of sign language – the minority language group itself has a “ we ” or “ insider ” view of their cultural group as well as a “ they ” or “ outsider ” view of those who do not share the values of the group.

Contrary to his progressive nature, inquiring mind, and abolitionist politics, we find him describing a “ motherly mulatto woman ” as possessing “ the passive obedience of her race ;” or Mexicans in California described as originating from “ a nation of beggars-on-horseback ... the Spaniards, Greasers, and Mixed-Breeds ...;” or Chinese immigrants in “ a kennel of straggling houses ” with Ludlow imagining them “ finally ... swept away from San Francisco, and that strange Semitic race ... either exiled or swallowed up in our civilization ...;” or “ the natural, ingrained laziness of the Indians .”

Another anthropologist, Carl Lumholtz, commented that the Opatas had “ lost their language, religion, and traditions, dress like the Mexicans, and in appearance are in no way distinguishable from the laboring class of Mexico with which they are thoroughly merged through frequent intermarriage .”

“ Even immigration scholars have frequently labeled Mexicans as part of a ‘ new immigrant ’ grouping in comparison to Europeans such as the Irish and Germans ,” which he claims to be a widely held misconception.

A member of the Los Angeles County board of Supervisors, H. M. Blaine “ allegedly remarked that the majority of the Mexicans in the Los Angeles Colonia were either on relief or were public charges ,” even though sources at the time documented that less than 10 percent of people on welfare across the country were Mexican or of Mexican descent ( Balderrama 99 ).

Although the law was hardly enforced, “ employers used it as a convenient excuse for not hiring Mexicans.

Visel, the spokesman for Los Angeles Citizens Committee for Coordination of Unemployment Relief began his “ unemployment relief measure ” that would create a “ psychological gesture ” intended to “ scarehead ” Mexicans out of the United States.

Watkins, Supervisor of the Bureau of Immigration, and his agents were responsible for many mass raids and deportations, and the local government was responsible for the media attention that was given to these raids in order to “ scarehead ” immigrants, specifically Mexicans, although there were repeated press releases from LA city officials that affirmed Mexicans were not being targeted.

In 2009, Manitoba Métis Federation ( MMF ) President David Chartrand and Sam Katz launched “ It ’ s My Community Too ”.

In the Northeast, the Métis Eastern Tribal Indian Society, often referred to as the Métis of Maine, seeks to teach and carry on the North Eastern Woodland Native American heritage to its “ mixed blood ” ( Native and usually European ) members of the band.

" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.

The title “ Patriarch ” means the Head or the Leader of a Tribe or a Community.

As Sunir Shah stated in the WikiWikiWeb page referring to MeatballWiki: “ Community discussions about how to run the community itself should be left here.

According to Rabbi Shammai Engelmayer, spiritual leader of Temple Israel Community Center in Cliffside Park and former executive editor of Jewish Week, this leaves “ Orthodox ” as “ an umbrella term that designates a very widely disparate group of people very loosely tied together by some core beliefs .”

However his actions of supporting alternately the English and Scottish armies had led to a great deal of distrust towards Bruce among the “ Community of the Realm of Scotland ”.

“ From Individual to Community: Becoming a Shaker at New Lebanon, 1780 – 1947 .” Communal Societies, Volume 11 ( 1991 ): 18 – 33.

“ Individual Experience, Community Control, and Gender: The Harvard Shaker Community During the Era of Manifestations ,” Communal Societies 13 ( 1993 ): 45 – 70.

“ The Nobel Prize for Peace: who is Bishop Belo ?” ANS Mag: A Periodical for the Salesian Community, year 3, no.

As noted by Brian Lapping, the Community Development Projects were also designed to test the view that within poor communities local residents could articulate local grievances, get conditions in their areas improved, and provide some kind of political leadership, in a way that the existing political structure had failed to do, “ largely because these areas of intense poverty were rarely big enough to be electorally important .” In assessing the First Wilson Government ’ s efforts to uplift the poorest members of British society via the establishment of the Community Development Projects and the designation of the Educational Priority Areas, Brian Lapping noted that

This bill, which was enacted into law, “ amended the Head Start Act, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Act of 1981, and the Community Services Block Grant Act ... in order to provide an opportunity for persons with limited means to accumulate assets .”

In 1985, the Meigs County Family and Community Education (“ FCE ”) Club began a large quilt to commemorate the early history of Meigs County, for a state project, the Tennessee “ Homecoming 1986.

“ The Shiloh Community of Sulphur Springs, Arkansas .” Benton County Pioneer 47. 2 ( 2002 ): 16 – 19.

Greg Gatzka, Kings County ’ s Community Development Director, was quoted in a June 2011 newspaper story that “ the real question is whether high-speed rail is going to authorize a station there.

According to the constitution of the association, “ The object and purpose of the association shall be the development and improvement of Calimesa and The Community ”.

Masaryktown has a most active “ Little League ” baseball club, with a field on the Community Hall grounds.

* Ayabe, Masatomo, “ Ku Kluxers in a Coal Mining Community: A Study of the Ku Klux Klan Movement in Williamson County, Illinois, 1923 – 1926 ,” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, 102 ( Spring 2009 ), 73 – 100.

* In March 2011, Greencastle was one of two Indiana cities selected as a “ Stellar Community ” by the state of Indiana.

Salt Lake County has designated a Granite “ Community Council ” for purposes of planning and development.

From these activities there emerged a very active organization called “ The Community League ”, dedicated toward school and town improvements.

Community property owned by a debtor ’ s spouse is included within the “ all property owned by the debtor .”

As Congress was considering the Proxmire Financial Modernization Act in 1988, the Commission of the European Communities proposed a “ Second Banking Directive ” that became effective at the beginning of 1993 and provided for the combination of commercial and investment banking throughout the European Economic Community.

“ Woofies ” were not authorized by the GLBA because of a dispute between Senator Phil Gramm and the Clinton Administration over the application of the Community Reinvestment Act to “ woofies .” In their October 1999 compromise on CRA provisions in the GLBA, the Clinton Administration agreed with Gramm that CRA would not apply to woofies so long as only a company that did not then own any FDIC insured depository institution would be permitted to qualify as a “ wholesale financial institution .” The Clinton Administration wanted this restriction to prevent existing bank holding companies from disposing of their FDIC insured banks to qualify as “ woofies ,” which could reduce the deposit base subject to CRA requirements.