Word: cosmopolitanism
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...refusal of others to see them. The reality is more tragic. They refuse to see themselves! Instead, many take refuge in the rhetoric of "racism at Harvard" as though matriculation at such heavenly institutions as Howard University or the University of Liberia was not an option. Still others wax "cosmopolitan" (borrowing Milton M. Gordon's term, read anglo-conformist) partaking of that sacred cultural narcotic: interracial mating. These equally counterproductive behavioral patterns serve predictable cathartic functions. For example, the word racism has immense deflective utility. It is frequently an excellent semantic device for obfuscating the internal roots of group failings...
...rich insights are unquestionably worth the accompanying imperfections. For example in the recent series of exchanges with black students we tend to concur with much of the substance of his critique. It is true that many black students do not intelligently utilize Harvard's extraordinary resources and its cosmopolitan environment. It is also indisputably true that much of the intragroup fraternizing is not generally very productive. These criticisms are entirely reasonable. There is also another aspect of this controversy which has not received adequate attention. Kilson's criticisms are rooted in a vision of politics and culture from an earlier...
...Rudolph Valentino (Italy); the noble warlord: Sessue Hayakawa (Japan); the tragic heroine: Pola Negri (Poland); the vamp goddess: Greta Garbo (Sweden). Nor was the flood stanched with the arrival of talking pictures in the late 1920s. Hollywood saw the Babel of exotic accents as one more earnest of its cosmopolitan reach. And so Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer brought their suavity from France; Marlene Dietrich (Germany), Hedy Lamarr (Austria) and Ingrid Bergman (Sweden) helped Garbo flesh out the fantasy of the European woman. From south of the border Carmen Miranda brought her fruity headdresses, Gilbert Roland his purring machismo. Half...
...money, I'd bet that Black students at Harvard (and other colleges, too) who have chosen cosmopolitan identities rather than ethnocentric ones will in the future perform their Black leadership requirements better than Black students who have opted for ethnocentrism. If the good Lord's willing. I'll meet Timothy Wilkins, Anthony Ball, and Audrey Mischell [three Black student leaders] down the road in 20 years to pick up my winnings...
...director [of the Foundation] has made it clear that he is willing to stand his ground against the ethnocentric loudmouths," Kilson says. The Foundation is "unabashedly cosmopolitan...