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There are few sounds more pleasing to the conservative ear than the clang of colliding liberal pieties.(The Week)(on Michaelle Jean's case)(Brief article)

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There are few sounds more pleasing to the conservative ear than the clang of colliding liberal pieties. Consider the recent case of Michaelle Jean, governor-general of Canada, which is to say, viceroy under Queen Elizabeth of England, Canada's head of state. Jean incarnates an unusual quantity of politically correct essences, being black, female, and an immigrant (from Haiti to Canada when aged eleven). On an official tour of a far northern region inhabited mainly by Eskimos, she participated enthusiastically in a traditional folk ceremony associated with the main source of local income. ...

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