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Daniel H. Choi's January 27th depiction of "Multicultural Malaise"--what others know as Ethnic Studies--is, shall I say, "simply, and in order of severity, redundant, narrow, ignorant of history, perverse, and inimical to the very idea of a liberal arts education." Furthermore, it was completely misinformed and unfactual...
More important, and much more disturbing, is Choi's argument that the "many Chinatowns and barrio border towns in America...are not germinating places for Latino and Asian American cultures that are strongly felt by most Latinos and Asians in America." First, this statement reflects a narrow perception of the lives of Latinos and Asian Americans. Choi can only be describing his personal experience--even here at Harvard there are dozens of students who have grown up in and around those very Chinatowns and barrios. Simply because his personal experience is not touched by Asian American culture does not mean...
Second, Choi displays both an ignorance of history and a narrow conception of education when he decides that since we can see at last, in 1993, the great import of the African American experience, but not an equal wealth on the Latino and Asian American fronts, that the former should be an academic discipline, while the latter should be relegated to subheadings under other courses. Choi obviously has no grasp of the United States as a dynamic nation with a constantly changing demography. The Census Bureau reports that from 1980 to 1990, the percentage of population growth of Asians...
...Foundation is to award fewer grants, the money at its discretion should be limited. HQ, the rag and other organizations that don't fall into the Foundation's decidedly narrow mandate should still be able to find sources of funding. That would mean decreasing the amount of money the College gives the Foundation, and diverting funds into another source, perhaps to house committees Epps' office...
...offers as its rationale the fact that AIDS and other such diseases are not transmitted by casual contact the way tuberculosis is. In order to assert this, however, the department must implicitly define casual contact in a narrow and unrealistic way that is more appropriate to describe the situation of visitors than of proposed long-term residents...