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India's film industry is the most prolific in the world, with about 1,000 movies made each year (compared with Hollywood's 750), and they attract a global audience of 3.6 billion?a billion more than their American cousins. But until recently, Bollywood's talents were considered too foreign...
Also slipping under administrative radar and passing for education here are left-wing catechisms on such topics as social activism and multiculturalism. In his book Illiberal Education, Hoover Institution research fellow Dinesh D’Souza described a Nov. 1989 French class at Harvard, which “resembled a...
Indeed, the curricular review’s theme of “internationalization” is in part a call for more of this kind of fluffy treatment of foreign cultures, sanitized through a Western “pluralistic” lens so that nobody’s feelings get...
The students will bring back “enthusiasm for their experiences studying abroad and their awareness of foreign cultures,” said Leslie M. Hill, associate director of the Office of International Programs (OIP), which administers the grants.
Balancing her questions and curiosity, Boym says that the immigrant experience teaches double consciousness. “You exist in two different worlds and self translation is always hard,” she says. “You’re always estranged from both cultures.”