Word: segregationism
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The Foundation is meant to encourage a flow and exchange of culture, traditions, and heritage so that we can learn from our differences, but not to grant legitimacy to self-segregation by funding ethnic groups and their events. Self-segregation, in fact, is exactly what we all fear (second, perhaps...
And all the events the Harvard Foundation sponsors—including those focusing on a single group and those integrating the experiences of many—are open to the community and widely publicized. Take, for example, the Thai Society’s New Years Party I attended last Monday...
These groups are part of a wider trend called self-segregation. This phenomenon occurs when individuals of a certain—in this case racial or ethnic—group separate themselves from the community at large and study, hang out, and party primarily with other individuals of that group...
It is both the prevalence of these groups and self-segregation as a larger factor on campus that makes CBSA so necessary. Where Harvard should be showing us that our differences are only skin deep, it instead goes out of its way to emphasize and reinforce those differences. Take (please...
This encouragement of ethnic self-segregation is counterproductive. It says that there really is something fundamentally different about people who do not look the same, which is simply not true. By concentrating on what superficially separates us—like skin color or where our ancestors came from�...