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The committee plans to call for permanent Asian-American studies courses in the English, sociology and history departments, Tang said. She said that the committee is also interested in establishing an American studies or American cultures department that integrates the many different cultures and histories of the United States.
The couch potatoes of the future, whose every entertainment wish will be granted at the touch of a button, may have trouble interacting with one another in the real world. One hypothesis: people will become more self- centered, less attuned to their neighbors and society. Bridging the gap between cultures...
The century to come, and the centuries to follow, will be complex, fast- paced and turbulent. Human beings everywhere have learned to live with, even thrive on, explosive increases in the volume of knowledge, the capacities of technology, the potential for travel, the electronic immediacy of once distant cultures. Change...
ON THE CAMPUSES OF AMERICA THESE days, Eurocentrism is a naughty word, a no-no in an age of political correctness. Yet there is no gainsaying the reality that the central theme of the second millennium is, to cite the title of a popular book by the British historian J.M...
The triumph of the West was in many ways a bloody shame -- a story of atrocity and rapine, of arrogance, greed and ecological despoliation, of hubristic contempt for other cultures and intolerance of non-Christian faiths. Nonetheless, as Hugh Thomas argues in A History of the World, "it is obvious...