Word: non-western
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...courses taken must be a multidisciplinary course and two must be lab science courses. Three of the 10 courses must give the student "world cultural exposure"-in European, United States and non-Western culture...
...non-Western societies have latched on torationality, which is Western in origin," Bissonsays. "But the great Eastern societies areterribly important for knowledge of religion andphilosophy...
Today's art historians are more likely to study non-Western works and more likely to view art in its cultural and historical context, professors...
...descendants of white Europeans, the arbiters of the core national culture for most of its existence, are likely to slip into minority status. "Without fully realizing it," writes Martha Farnsworth Riche, director of policy studies at Washington's Population Reference Bureau, "we have left the time when the nonwhite, non-Western part of our population could be expected to assimilate to the dominant majority. In the future, the white, Western majority will have to do some assimilation...
...shorter speech, Kennedy said he was troubled that extreme thinking has become the focus of the debate over multiculturalism. He said scholars must realize that they can teach about both Western and non-Western cultures...