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Dates: during 2007-2007
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...worry that you, dear reader, might be anxious at this juncture in my narrative. Did I ever find my inner nature lover, and/or manage to assimilate successfully into the Harvard community? Well, no...but hey, assimilation??€”and fleece—are overrated...

Author: By Liz C. Goodwin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Failure to Thrive | 12/12/2007 | See Source »

Back in that day there were missionaries and colonial administrators and educators pushing Christianity, the backwardness of non-western societies, and the bright future of European civilization, technology, and culture. One of the stated goals of the French colonial policy in Africa was cultural assimilation??€”to better the primitive Africans by transforming them into little dark Frenchmen and women. Now there are Western-educated aid workers, politicians, professors, and organizers pushing the materialist religions of free-market capitalism and Marxism (both ideological descendents of Hegel), the backwardness of non-Western societies, and the bright future of modern technology...

Author: By Oludamini D. Ogunnaike | Title: The Myth of Progress | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

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