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Whereas in many other countries and cultures, the nuclear family survives a university education and often well beyond one, whether under one physical roof or simply in the same city, in America, the dynamics of the parent-child relationship changes forever once high school is over. In France, for example...
Our campus is littered with the posters extolling the virtues of our varied cultural groups and organizations. They encourage "unity" as a means of protecting the groups' cultural heritage. Without this protection, the unique character of a culture is in danger of being lost as the Great Melting Pot becomes...
It was always a primitive terror to be cast out of the tribe and made to wander as a stranger. Today a famous person--Arnold Schwarzenegger, say, or Sylvester Stallone, those universal action figures whose films require the fewest subtitles and therefore address masses most eloquently in remote cultures--might...
Another problem, scholars now firmly believe, was racial prejudice, which turned many in the field away from cultures emanating from deeper in Africa. Prominent Egyptologists --including the noted American George Reisner, who worked in Sudan--thought they were excavating the remains of an offshoot of Egyptian culture. "They didn't...
"Their daily interactions becomes a continual scene of teaching and learn- ing, a place to understand creeds and cultures different from one's own... and to learn to work with others across such lines of difference," Brodhead wrote in the op-ed.