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Call me a cynic. But if our backgrounds can make us look unique and "ethnic" to elite professional schools or high-powered recruiters looking to build diverse groups or assuage white guilt, we should milk them for all they're worth. As a Filipino-American, if I have to dance the tinikling or scarf down lechon to advance my career, I'll do it gladly...
...poet Adrienne Rich '51 has written of "the invisible violence of the institution of motherhood to mothers: the guilt, the powerless responsibility for human lives, the judgments and condemnations, the fear of her own power, the guilt, the guilt, the guilt...
Contemporary middle-class parenting requires an abdication of certain responsibilities which are replaced by the assumption of other responsibilities in other spheres. Yet this overwhelming guilt which too often permeates parenting can have a debilitating effect on other aspects of one's life...
Even a routine trip to the dining hall can cause fear and guilt for Sara, who says she also feels guilty if she doesn't exercise every...
...human side of science. Wright designed The Moral Animal as an introduction to the new field of evolutionary psychology, the study of the genetic basis of human emotion and thought. "The everyday feelings that guide us through our lives are the products of evolution -- among them are guilt, compassion, envy, love, lust, our sense of justice," he says. If that sounds like a prescription for predetermination, even fatalism, Wright points out that what is natural is not necessarily unchangeable. "The good news," he says, "is that qualities like conscience and a sense of justice have a biological basis...