Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mission to integrate the twofields--injecting ethnic blood into canonicalAmerican literature," Huang said. "I was veryexcited over that possibility...
...host to read the names of the groups appropriately (Halle Berry and Will Smith both butchered their pronunciation), and give the student performers a minute to describe the significance of their performance. Provide additional context about the performances in the brochure, and hand out information about each individual ethnic student organization at the food fair. At least that way we're making an effort to extend the discourse on difference beyond exoticization...
...course, no one in the audience really believes that the performance they're about to witness represents the full diversity of the Harvard campus. Instead, it is a sampling of performances by selected campus ethnic organizations--not the entire campus. We wholeheartedly support the real reason Cultural Rhythms should exist: to give ethnic minority and cultural organizations at Harvard an occasion to put on a show of their own. Let's be honest: there is nothing wrong with having an event about minority student interests (which non-minorities, of course, are encouraged to attend). But why couch Cultural Rhythms...
...Diversity" is cool, and, best of all, diversity is safe--it doesn't bring up scary ideas like affirmative action, racist police, white privilege, economic inequality or even (at Harvard) a multicultural student center and ethnic studies. The kind of "diversity" the University encourages doesn't depend on small groups of people meeting and talking through real problems but rather on diversity brokers who urge the students to create brochure-friendly diversity...
...NATO focused on forcing Milosevic to accept peacekeeping troops in Kosovo, hard-line rebels took over the ethnic Albanian delegation. "That made life a lot easier for Milosevic," says Anastasijevic. So no bombs, no agreement and -- as both sides let their weapons do the talking in new clashes in Kosovo Tuesday -- no sign of peace...