Word: westerners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really deny that some of the "Great Books"--indeed all of them--have great parts. Nor do I deny that these books are the foundations of the "Western civilization" which scholars have so long defined...
Unfortunately, although Harvard's Core doesn't announce that it is a tribute to Western civilization, you can slip through learning little else...
...today we pretend we have broken through those racist, sexist viewpoints. There are amendments to the cherished Constitution--surely a contribution to Western civilization--which say that people shall not be discriminated against on the basis of race...
Irrational, I am told. You can have another class for women and minorities. But you can't change the list of "Great Books." If you have to leave something out, it mustn't be one of the "founders" of Western thought and culture...
Haven't we recognized the flaws in Western thought and culture in the past 20 years? Since the Civil Rights and the Women's Liberation Movements of the 1960s and '70s, most Americans will admit to the biases that have infected our past perceptions...