But it was just the latest event in a longer history between government oversight and coded, paternalistic language about “improving” the poor through housing.
A paternalistic fixture of white-collar life born of the Industrial Revolution, the office dining room survived the midcentury move to sprawling suburban office parks.
Combined, these three mistakes are leading us to impose a Western debate on the future of energy and falling back on paternalistic attitudes towards Africa.
The group that made the decision said that the Shakespeare center seems " paternalistic" and that its request for financial support did not show the relevance to art of current times.
A paternalistic person prefers making decisions for other people, rather than letting them take responsibility for their own lives. To infantilize someone means to treat them as if they were a child.
But I think the language of it, Daryl's raised, it nagged at me initially when we spoke, that he was talking about the gift day as a kind of paternalistic gift.
There's been a lot of coverage in the book of the sort of condescending, paternalistic, tsk tsk way of looking at African societies where people were changing their behavior and not getting much credit for it.