Whisper it softly, but whisper it we must. Does the United Nations discriminate on grounds of nationality?
Singapore's scholar-diplomat-public intellectual Kishore Mahbubani famously wrote a book asking if Asians can think. The U.N. does not seem to believe so.
Some years ago, a widely admired U.N. official was pulled out of the Balkans because Europeans would not accept a non-European as head of the U.N. mission. Hypocritically Europeans do not apply this logic to excuse themselves from serving as heads of U.N. missions elsewhere.
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