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The relative ignorance of Asian-American cultures that Pizzarro has encountered and the belief that Asian-Americans are a "model minority" are widespread, Asian-American students say.
The best essays in this book demonstrate Rodriguez's ability to play with these contradictions, to arrive at startling truths about American society. He insists that Americans must realize their culture is by nature a mixture. He contrasts the American obsession with racial and cultural purity to Mexico's ethic...
"I am definitely dedicated to the idea of amulticultural curriculum, but I question thecurrent direction of creating separateconcentrations for American sub-cultures," DavidA. Smith '94 said.
According to Harvard's Courses of Instruction, Harvard's primary Core philosophy is to introduce students to "major approaches to knowledge in areas that the faculty considers indispensable to undergraduate education." Harvard's Foreign Cultures common aim is to "expand the range of one's cultural experience and to provide...
As a result, full randomization looks more and more desirable. It solves the Heirs-versus-Randoms issue in Adams House by frustrating the growth of opposing cultures within each house. And it eliminates the self segregation that non-ordered choice--and ordered choice, a bad old habit of which the...