Tim Burke's blog

collegialmom
Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:22:06 +0000

The university to which I am referring has a lot of diversity and likewise, I think that it would be hard to avoid knowing about other cultures.

The other ironic thing about their “nonwestern” requirement is that language classes are exculded from the requirement. So a student can become fluent in a “nonwestern” language such as Korean or Japanese for the language requirement, but that doesn’t fulfill the “nonwestern” requirement. Instead, they have to take a course in English about the culture, so this could be the “western” perspective about the “nonwestern” culture.

Anyway, I am sure that there are administrators getting paid lots of money to try to culturally manipulate the student body.