Word: culturese
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A solipsistic imbalance distorts and threatens to destroy William T. Vollmann's brooding, idiosyncratic novel cycle, Seven Dreams: A Book of North American Landscapes. Corruption of native inhabitants by Europeans is the broad theme of this enormously ambitious project, and the first two volumes, The Ice-Shirt, about Greenland, and...
Has the United States, in spite of the universalization of a human rights culture, erected a grid which in inapplicable across other cultures? Not all forms of democracy are successfully exportable.
"I think our priority should be to make Harvard students aware of international and foreign cultures, and in that sense we are continuing to make an effort," says Professor of European Studies Charles S. Maier 60.
"[W]e want to contribute to the education and training of leaders throughout the world," Rudenstine writes in the President's Report 1991-93, which was released recently. "At the same time, we want students from the United States to understand the perspective of people from other cultures--through courses...
The second flaw in the multiculturalist theory is more fundamental. The particularistic multiculturalists (those who hold that "no common culture is possible of desirable") seem to assume that the colorful heritages and cultures of America's minorities are being suppressed by a homogeneous "white" institution. This assumption flies in the...