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...being nevertheless laid bare to them may induce this pathological self-consciousness. Consider Internet journals, a total inversion the dynamic of the private diary. The same goes for (another contributor) YellowBanana’s penchant for sprinkling the novel’s text with the word ‘banana?? (either vandalizing or improving...
When I was young I was a self-professed “banana??—that is, yellow on the outside and unrepentantly white on the inside. Growing up 1.5-generation Asian American (born abroad, raised domestically) is a strange splice of cultural bravado and insecurity. Perhaps it is this realization of guilt that is driving me to write and to think a little more about the identity conflicts that plague recent American arrivals...
...will be titled. Yet if the Preliminary Report’s strongly worded philosophy is lost in this endless discussion, the years of work that formed “Literature, Arts, and Ideas” will be spoiled; Foreign Cultures 85, “Japan Pop: From Basho to Banana?? will likely trickle through the categorical cracks if professors do not firmly support the philosophy outlined in the Preliminary Report. “Relevance” and “citizenship” are by no means specific in how a new Standing Committee will judge new courses...
...that special day of the week when organic bananas are available in Harvard dining halls. Branded with an “organic” label, such bananas reassure the Birkenstock wearer that he has hugged his equivalent of a tree that day. Pressed for specifics on the banana??s virtues, said eater will give some mealy-mouthed response (maybe it’s the taste?). Despite the apparent frivolity of organic food, however, there are concrete health and environmental advantages that one would be foolish to ignore...
...saying that we should rush the review just to create a program that keeps me from having to take Foreign Cultures 85 (“Japan Pop! From Bashô to Banana??), or that we even could rush such a delicate and thoughtful process if we wanted to. Neither is it to say that earth-shattering ideas and revolutionary pedagogy won’t come in their time. But where the College implicitly acknowledges that the Core isn’t providing the general education that ought to come with a Harvard degree, and none of us will...