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...myself reflect, “Well, if I’m struggling I’m doing something right” and recognized a tone totally contrary to everything I thought I was. To the extent that I had inherited a culture, nowhere in my very hybrid Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern European parentage was there even a hint of the kind of Puritanism that values “sticking it out” above all else. More importantly, the sentiment had never guided my decisions in high school, where I wasn’t ashamed to take steps...
...said is painfully obvious. No one thinks they work just to work, because no one wants to believe they’ve become the embodiment of the Protestant Ethic or the Spirit of Capitalism. But the truth is that even the most laid-back socialist-leaning Catholic-Jewish Asian-Spanish-Eastern Europeans among us have internalized some of those principles. Until I gave them up last summer, that...
...October of 1957—when many of the graduates attending their 50th reunion this week were beginning their senior year of college—the Faculty Committee on Regional Studies at Harvard established the Center for East Asian Studies in order to give “cohesion and stimulus” to graduate training and research associated with East Asia. The Crimson ran a short article covering the Center’s formation, noting that its plans called for “more intensive study of Japan, Korea, and other potential trouble areas...
...latter half of the 20th century by making “ethnic” and “regional” studies mainstream, the creation of venues of study for non-Western disciplines or topics is only half the battle. While the 1957 establishment of the Center for East Asian Studies surely led to a greater understanding of East Asian cultures on Harvard’s campus, it is impossible to escape the exoticism the region was subject to by the College’s press. By labeling Japan and Korea “potential trouble areas...
...whites!) or to be used as communist pawns, but because the University recognizes the inherent value in understanding “non-Western” cultures and histories. The class of 2008’s graduates had the option to concentrate in African and African American studies, East Asian languages and civilizations, Near Eastern languages and civilizations, and Sanskrit and Indian studies. But what is still missing from Harvard’s academic offerings is the opportunity to study these fields as integrated pieces of history, literature, and social theory. While it is possible to be a history major...