Word: culti
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...where any kind of commandment might be deemed unduly judgmental, character ed revolves around pillars or building blocks of character--universally accepted values bleached of any sectarian contamination. And they are transmitted by the familiar methods beloved of today's pedagogues: posters and banners, role playing and sharing, multi-culti storytelling and words of the week--all the cheerful paraphernalia that makes the modern American classroom seem like a Maoist re-education camp run by Barney the dinosaur...
...Detailed background on boys' hometown of Tulsa, Okla.: ("Tulsa is proudly multi-culti...
...Multi-Culti Books: Under this heading I include both I. (Third) World literature and 2. the whiney, self-righteous tirades against those books by conservative reactionaries. The fascination with the books in the former sub-division emerges from the liberal disdain for hieracrchy. Classical Mongolian verse simply cannot be any better or worse than Milton, the true multiculti declares. I'll grant the fundamental equality of all the world's literature when the deans of leading medical schools across America supply their students with Rwandan anatomy text-books on the grounds that they're all the same anyhow...
There's a lot of fun to be had with this system. Try, for instance, to pigeon-hole the Bible. Is it a Fat True Book or Multi-Culti? And if it is Multi-Culti, then is it of the World Literature variety or the conservative reactionary? How about The Bell Curve? Ah, the joy of reading...