Word: unilinear
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Fuentes attributes Latin American experimentalism with the traditional novelistic form--especially the breaking away from chronological narrative to newer grounds where past, present, and future exist simultaneously--to Latin America's unique pattern of economic development. It is a modernization process where there has not been unilinear growth as in Western industrialized countries...
...order to create a "viable world community," Reischauer postulates, it will first be necessary to train world citizens. He advocates, in part, "a basically comparative rather than unilinear approach" to the study of the human experience. A student would learn the characteristics of his own society and culture as well as the responses that other societies have made to the human dilemma in terms of politics, economics, family relations, literature, philosophy, morality, etc. As a result of such a course of study, the student would obtain a less parochial view of the world and an understanding of how societies change...
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