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...Trust me, you're not the only one here," Solomon Kleinsmith, the head of the group Omaha for Obama and himself a lifelong Republican, replied with a chuckle. "Come, sit down...
Students who are drawn to a field of study by their ethnic background may also find themselves limited by their lack of objectivity. Erika L. Solomon ’08 comes from a Jewish family—an ethnic tie to the Middle East that drew her to the study of Arabic culture. “A lot of Jewish people study the Middle East and Arabic as a kind of counterbalance to their ethnic identity,” she says. “They want to understand this culture they see themselves in conflict with...
...Solomon believes that such an opposition-oriented interest in the Middle East can be extremely limiting. “I sometimes worry that they go to these great lengths to study Arabic and the Middle East without making the effort to change their built-in perceptions,” she says of Jewish students at Harvard. “It’s the kind of thing that Arabic students talk about—there are the people who study Arabic because they want to be in the CIA, and there are the people who study it because they feel...
...Caucasian students are arguably more likely to encounter questions of academic purpose when they choose to focus on ethnic disciplines. Solomon, who identifies herself as Latin American and German, often encounters the accusation, “Oh, you want to date Arab guys—is that why you’re studying the Middle East...
...process by which non-heritage students become interested in their respective fields of study is, Solomon says, “not so different from people who grow up with [them].” Self-professed WASP Mollie M. Kirk ’08 remembers that her interest in Chinese culture developed from an early exposure to the Chinese language. “When I was in 6th grade, my mom took my brother and me to a museum exhibit in Philadelphia,” she remembers. “They had a girl there who was translating...