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Name[edit]

Is Buruma a typical Dutch name? Is it a Japanization of his actual name (like the way Alex becomes Arekusu/アレクス)? Is it even his real name at all? Sounds just like the Japanese word for bloomers - ブルマ/buruma. LordAmeth (talk) 10:59, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to know about his name, too. I found his entry by entering "buruma" in the search box. This brought up a disambiguation page on which he was listed (among others) as "Ian Buruma: pen-name of an author on Japanese culture." So is "Ian Buruma" indeed a pen-name? 38.115.185.13 (talk) 19:45, 6 March 2009 (UTC) HelenChicago[reply]

Ian Buruma is and Anglo-Dutch Jew. He grew up in Holland, but his first language was English. I believe both his parents are British, but I'm not sure. I also believe both his parents are Jewish, but again, not sure. At least one of his parents is Brit/Jewish. Buruma is apparently his true name. His uncle was the filmmaker John Schlesinger (director of Midnight Cowboy). Hope this info. helps.

I think, the name Buruma is a dutch name. Names with -ma at the end are not uncommon in the Netherlands. I think it's something originally Frisian that means -man, like -man in Englisch names or -mann in German ones. --Metron (talk) 13:58, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But how does one pronounce it? In English? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.10.174.252 (talk) 16:53, 5 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

wikink (descriptive) public intellectual?[edit]

Why or why not? 108.195.138.124 (talk) 05:39, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't mean what you think it means. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 06:13, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Megalomania, mindreading or unproven clairvoyance again? 99.181.153.18 (talk) 05:03, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Projection? And our "article" (public intellectual) doesn't mean what the word might mean in this article. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 07:08, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Scholarship"[edit]

The statement under "Scholarship" ("Buruma argues for wholehearted British participation in the European Union because they are the "strongest champions in Europe of a liberal approach to commerce and politics") appears to be opinion rather than scholarship. konetidy (talk) 11:12, 13 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Bibliography[edit]

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 04:29, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

While I would prefer capitalization and punctuation to follow the standard cataloguing rules referred to above, the Wikipedia Manual of Style at WP:MOS requires "title case". I will make changes accordingly. Sunwin1960 (talk) 04:42, 16 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

tendentious phrase[edit]

I found the phrase "Buruma defended his decision to give Ghomeshi a platform for these claims" tendentious, since Buruma's stated purpose was definitely not to assist Ghomeshi in any claims that purported to downsize the number of accusations. Therefore I have removed the words "for these claims." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Retal (talk • contribs) 18:35, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Abraham Kuyper Prize[edit]

Regarding this edit, it would not be clear to readers what the Abraham Kuyper Prize actually is, nor why it would be encyclopedically significant. Obviously it's named after Abraham Kuyper, but since he died in 1920 and the award was created in 1998, this name itself is almost meaningless. We would still need context from a reliable, independent source. I will note that the award has since moved from Princeton to the Di Vries Global Institute for Global Faculty Development at Calvin University. The common convention on Wikipedia for awards is to cite WP:IS for any award which lacks its own article, although even then it's still better to provide context. Grayfell (talk) 00:31, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]