Word: cosmopolitanism
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...become something they are not; on the contrary, the Doctor is adamantly against both assimilation and the abandonment of one's social responsibility. He leaves it to the discretion of the student as to how much he or she should "temper" his or her parochial givens with cosmopolitan interactions...
...seems my comments in The Crimson (February 25) on the cosmopolitan imperative as a viable lifestyle at elite colleges did precisely what I had hoped they would do--provoke counter reflections by the ethnocentric spokespersons among Black students like Anthony Ball, Timothy Wilkins, Alan Shaw, and Christopher Farley. But these counter reflections radiated more heat than enlightenment, and while I'm not against some heat in such discussions it should be used to sharpen and advance enlightenment--not obscure and hinder it. I have several comments to offer by way of rebuttal...
...preference as well) for certain parochial moorings--which might be race-linked for Black students, religious-linked for Jewish and Mormon students, language-linked and nationality-linked for Hispanic students, etc, etc. I did not say in my February 25 letter that as such parochial preferences were inferior to cosmopolitan ones, and if the quintet from the Black Students Association (Anthony Ball--Kenneth Johnson--Darryl Parsons--Brian Stevens--Timothy Wilkins) read attentively, they would not find in that letter what they claim I said, that I dismiss "as parochial the Church-of-Latter-Day-Saints and Hillel House...
...such moorings, through Newman Club, Hillel House, etc. And from this functional vantage point (not an inferior-superior vantage point as the quintet charges) I said that some students (maybe say 35 percent of Jewish students, 35 percent of Catholic students, 50 percent of Mormons, etc.) "trek Harvard's cosmopolitan cross-roads...." The quintet from the Black Students Association just doesn't read very well...
...February 25 comments, as the quintet suggests, that parochial moorings are off-limits to cosmopolitan Blacks or cosmopolitans among any other ethnic group. I said that Black students with ethnocentric identities have a dysfunctional approach to cultivating parochial moorings, a phony leadership approach that will not and cannot translate the cultivation of parochial moorings into viable benefits (whether emotional, economic, power, intellectual) for Black Americans. Cosmopolitan Blacks who want to cultivate genuine connections with some Black parochial moorings are, for the most part, just more sophisticated, mature and skillful in these matters than Blacks with ethnocentric identities, for they above...