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`Wise' ethnocentrism?
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In a fall essay in The New Republic, Charles Murray and the late
Richard Herrnstein, authors of the best-selling "The Bell Curve," ask
African-Americans not to feel "threatened by a group difference {on
IQ tests} between blacks and whites." Instead, the authors ask us
all to celebrate the "glorious hodgepodge of inequalities of ethnic
groups."
As an example, they want to laud the predominance of
African-American athletes "without being subject to accusations that
one is being backhand...
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The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
; ... because they were patchworks of ethnic groups with no common bond. We are in danger of following the same path if we allow ethnocentrism to overpower our identity as Americans. We cannot allow our country to become Balkanized. About a century ago, Theodore ... nationality - American; and one language - English. These ...
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For U.S., a union of great import.(SPORTS)
The Washington Times
; ... mean celebrate. When France and its neighbors got together in 1957 to create a freer-flowing continent, trade- and travel-wise, they couldn't possibly have imagined that one of their principal exports would become athletes .. athletes that have ... sports than when Roger Bannister broke the four-minute-mile barrier for ...
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A CHRISTIAN ALTERNATIVE TO (CHRISTIAN) RACISM AND ANTISEMITISM [*].
Journal of Ecumenical Studies
; ... as the one in whom we all live and move and have our being is to be liberated from the idolatries of exclusivism and ethnocentrism. The first and most obvious point to make about racism generally and about the specific form it takes in one's prejudicial ... am not insensitive to the charge that this can be just another ...
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The Politics of Murder
Jerusalem Post
; ... Belt Press. 254 pp. 254 pp. $ 14.95. Two worlds collided on November 4, 1995. One side sees clericalism, messianism and ethnocentrism as the path to the expression of Jewish values. The other side sees the rejection of modernism, pluralism, and pragmatism ... to depend on the two parties who regarded Oslo as an ...
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And now, for more of the same
Jerusalem Post
; ... knowledge, it's necessary to explore the author' s underlying motives in order to evaluate this book. Kimmerling is George S. Wise professor of sociology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Since Israel Shahak's death in July 2001, Kimmerling is arguably ... mainstream Israeli social science and historiography to free ...
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