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Brann, Eva – Academic Questions, 2012
Is not America the West's very West, from the East Coast across the continent, "Western" even in its latest, pervasive piety--diversity? For diversity-preachment, in spite of all its excesses, is a recognition that this continent hosts--except for a tiny remnant of "Native" Americans--an immigrant population, who themselves, or through their…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Moral Development, Governance, Nationalism
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Butterworth, Charles E. – Academic Questions, 2012
The attention in the West, especially in the United States, now accorded Islam and those who conduct themselves according to its precepts betrays woeful ignorance of both. As Graham Fuller has persuasively argued in his recent book, "A World Without Islam", Western culture owes much to Islam as well as to Muslims and would be greatly impoverished…
Descriptors: Muslims, Islam, Non Western Civilization, Religious Conflict
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Zelnick, Stephen – Academic Questions, 2009
Liberal education has been disappearing, and what remains is diminished and compromised. At Temple University, the largest department in the college of liberal arts is criminal justice. The second largest is counseling psychology, and the humanities disciplines have become left-veering sociology. While islands of traditional learning survive, the…
Descriptors: General Education, Required Courses, Educational Change, Traditionalism
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Academic Questions, 2010
To get an inside view of campus life today, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (whose purpose is to foster in college students an appreciation of the values that sustain a free society) was approached and asked to supply a list of their Collegiate Network editors--students who are active on their campuses, interested in the issues facing higher…
Descriptors: Student Publications, Student Experience, Educational Experience, Essays
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Kurtz, Stanley – Academic Questions, 2003
Those who study and propose policy for dealing with the non-Western world are advised to balance their urge to modernize with an appreciation for indigenous social and cultural differences. Equilibrium is important, writes Stanley Kurd, yet the leftists who dominate social sciences have largely abandoned such an appreciation, as have…
Descriptors: Democracy, Social Sciences, Cultural Differences, Cultural Context