Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eeeez Baw-ston" sprouts up in craggy, square-nosed triple deckers behind Boston's Logan International Airport. It is one of Boston's old ethnic neighborhoods--Italian and working class--and it is isolated from the rest of the world by Boston Harbor and connected only by the Callahan Tunnel. East Boston is a cultural island...
...addition, the authors have left the most important point out of their manifesto--this recognition they demand should not be a recognition of race only, but also of academic preparation and of ability. If Harvard will accept a person simply because he belongs to a racial or ethnic minority why shouldn't they accept me simply because I am left handed or walk with a limp? If academic ability is not to be the primary consideration for the admissions office, then how long will Harvard remain a college that anyone interested in learning wishes to attend...
...emphasis on ethnicity hurts efforts to equalize opportunity for individuals, and often results in increased exploitation of the ethnic groups themselves, Patterson said yesterday...
Patterson added that there are fascist tendencies in movements toward ethnic pluralism. "Instead of saying we're all equal," he said, "eventually feelings of group superiority develop...
Martin L. Kilson, Jr., professor of Government, said yesterday he agreed with Patterson that the ethnic revival has been "detrimental to efforts to cosmopolize the American identity...