Word: westernization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early last Monday, death emerged from the wilderness. Deep in the park's misty hills, a band of more than 100 Rwandan Hutu guerrillas, driven into a fury by months of fighting in the ruleless Congo, turned on a group of Western tourists, killing eight (see following story). For the outside world, it was a vivid reminder of the terror that still grips the heart of Africa...
...truly study gender and sexuality, scholars should have breadth; they ought to be conversant in the biology of sex, the anthropology of Western and non-Western families, theories of sex difference beginning with Aristophanes and Greek philosophers, and a measure of knowledge about art history. Rudimentary sociology and history wouldn't hurt, either...
...Core art history course I took, the majority of the writings were either Marxist, post-structuralist or post-modernist. The head TF of the course, who was fair in his tolerance of my opinions to the contrary, informed me that, indeed, the pedagogical goal was to "destabilize" the Western conception of art. So we read a large amount of Michel Foucault, whose connection to visual culture is entirely dubious...
...most object to the common features of these post-everything trends: the disdain for Western civilization and popular culture, the denial of the desirability or universality of human rights, the denigration of the ability of individuals to be autonomous moral agents, and a magnanimous disrespect for religion, science and aesthetics...
...biochemistry concentrator in Eliot House, has excelled in many dimensions at Harvard. In her field of study, she has received fellowships to the top-ranked pharmacology department at the University of Texas South western Medical School...