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Keyword: ethnocentrism

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  • A cry in the black education wilderness

    04/28/2003 1:32:16 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 143 replies · 5,398+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | April 28, 2003 | ANDREA GEORGSSON
    The great disappointment of my ongoing crusade to foment a revolution in black education has been the lack of a response, and even hostility, from black leaders in this community. Naturally, I expected everyone to drop what they were doing and hop onto my education movement bandwagon. To be sure, black readers in general have responded positively and in droves to the call for a black education movement along the lines of our historic civil rights movement. They have said they agree that this movement must demand rigorous academic standards and a high level of parental responsibility and community involvement...
  • Noam Chomsky: Fake Linguist

    03/15/2003 4:29:32 AM PST · by ultimate_robber_baron · 165 replies · 8,530+ views
    Pariah Against A Prophet By Marc Miyake, Amritas.Com Many conservatives regard Chomsky as a linguist who falters out of his field. Unfortunately, they are giving Chomsky too much credit. Chomsky's linguistics are as warped as his politics. As someone with a PhD in linguistics, I think I am qualified to judge his professional credentials. Prior to Chomsky, linguists engaged in a lot of data collection to understand the diversity of human language. I'm vehemently anti-PC, but in this case, I think the word 'diversity' is justified. There's a lot out there, and someone's got to catalog it. However, Chomsky...
  • Outrage in My School Newspaper

    03/02/2003 3:22:40 PM PST · by mansion · 36 replies · 373+ views
    City Times | 02/24/03 | Karl Mitchell
    San Diego City Times “TRUTH” by Karl Mitchell There is no such thing as white power. It is impossible for white Americans to be superior to anybody of color because they possess the recessive gene. I will focus on the contributions of Africans, but before I get started I would like to say that no matter how hard the White Americans try to get rid of God’s first people (by prisons, drugs, AIDS, poverty), we will be here forever. No matter how hard the white Americans tries to kill the speaker (Malcolm, Martin Luther King Jr.) they will keep being...
  • The ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz

    10/28/2002 8:37:43 AM PST · by shrinkermd · 4 replies · 744+ views
    The New Criterion ^ | October 2002 | Keith Windschuttle
    From its origins in classical thought and Christianity, Western culture has always had a strong tendency towards universalism. This principle has long been expressed in the idea of the unity of human kind and the belief that all human beings had a common origin and were equal before God. During the European Enlightenment, these Christian concepts were secularized to produce the notions of a common human nature and universal human rights. At the same time, the West produced a scientific method that was so successful its practitioners assumed they had found the key that would open the way to knowledge...