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...Curve Ball for Foreign Students" (Editorial Notebook, Nov. 4): The writer argues that making baseball knowledge a prerequisite for solving problems "introduces a cultural bias." He couldn't be more, correct. It is the same cultural bias that first-year required to take the T to the MFA to view an exhibit need to overcome. All students, whether for Chicago or Namibia, make an adjustment when they arrive here at Harvard...
...natural that international students will require more of an adjustment than American students will, but learning to overcome a "cultural bias" toward the culture in which they have chosen to live should be part of the education of every student. DAVE WALKER...
Requiring a cultural background as part of the minimal background introduces a cultural bias. Granted, this cultural bias is merely a perverse effect of an otherwise well-intended effort to make problems easier to understand, and this is not to say that professors shouldn't continue these efforts...
Such are the questions explored by the show, and an intelligently curated and truly absorbing show it is. But then, this Australian-born critic has a bias. Americans, to the extent that they think about Australia at all, tend to imagine it as the Wild West they began to lose a century ago, but with koalas. Australian culture, except for some of its pop music and literature, is wretchedly underreported in the U.S. In fact, this is the first effort ever made by an American museum even to show any images made in Australia in the 19th century, let alone...
...short, Mansfield is not Dinesh D'Souza, and this is not 1992. Discussions of multiculturalism or perceived liberal bias at Harvard are useful. But critics should choose their topics more carefully, and refrain from misapplying outdated and contentious labels...