Word: multiculturalist
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...wishes to combat racism, one can only do it through reason and individualism. But to uphold reason and individualism requires a great deal of thought and intellectual honesty, and one must start by rejecting the multiculturalist premise that the individual is determined by his race...
...class was a Harvard institution, having remained largely unchanged for decades. New professors and new ideas--especially multiculturalist perspectives--supplied in the momentum for a curriculum overhaul...
...also a card-carrying multiculturalist. I tolerate religious pluralism, differences in political ideology and various ethnic backgrounds and sexual orientations...
When it suited his purposes, President Habyarimana could behave like a model multiculturalist. By the late 1980s his economy was gasping, famine was spreading, and his hold on power looked increasingly fragile. In a gesture of reform he loosened controls on the press and began negotiating to allow competing parties into the government. But many thought he was still dragging his feet. In 1990 the exiled Tutsi of the Rwandan Patriotic Front invaded from Uganda and launched a civil war that came to a halt only last August with the Arusha accords, which mandated that power be shared. Tutsi would...
...second flaw in the multiculturalist theory is more fundamental. The particularistic multiculturalists (those who hold that "no common culture is possible of desirable") seem to assume that the colorful heritages and cultures of America's minorities are being suppressed by a homogeneous "white" institution. This assumption flies in the face of the basic fact that America is a nation that has been multicultural since its inception...