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2005-10-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

Buzzword for the day: 'cultural competence'.

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Posted by tipper 2005-10-18 00:17|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Hey, I have cultural competence.

I can order a drink in all the U.S. states and many foreign countries.

In more than one langauge, too.

What else do I need to know? :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2005-10-18 01:06|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2005-10-18 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Cultural competence as defined by arrogant academics forcing their viewpoint on the rest of the world - why? Because they know best!

Cultural competence = enforced multi-culturism

Posted by Bobby 2005-10-18 08:07|| 2005-10-18 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3 When the time for purging comes, it needs to start in the world of Academics first. The tipping point has moved a little closer.

Beanie

Posted by Beanie 2005-10-18 08:13|| 2005-10-18 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Perhaps a tad off-topic but, if your concerned about the "PC mafia", I encourage you to take the time to get aqauinted with S.1145 (The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2005.

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-10-18 11:00|| 2005-10-18 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 More proof that todays universitites are nothin more than large community colleges with better athletic programs.

Posted by macofromoc 2005-10-18 11:45|| 2005-10-18 11:45|| Front Page Top

#6 The OU issue was just a misunderstanding. Someone circulated a copy of the EU constitution and everyone got confused.

Posted by DoDo 2005-10-18 11:51|| 2005-10-18 11:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Sounds exactly like at mine...I suppose thats what I get for going to a liberal university.

"There is no authority who can go beyond clichÃ©s to point to actual practice or to other evidence of a genuinely shared ethos."

Well, actually, there is. Its called friday night drinking and the saturday football game. When much of the campus gets together and acts like idiots.
#1 party school....I'm so proud.

Posted by SJB 2005-10-18 14:42|| 2005-10-18 14:42|| Front Page Top

#8 The author of this article, Norman Levitt, is a World Class observer, etymologist, and analyst. That's he's hysterically funny, dry as the desert, and a wicked Grandmaster of the deadly lampoon places this piece on the must-read list of every thinking American. A vanishingly small elite group of anti-elitists, lol.

It's nothing short of a Masterpiece.

Lol, as with all of the writings I've encountered that I'd place into that category, I'll have to read it several times.

Sheesh, tipper, I didn't expect homework on a Tuesday. lol. Thx for the post - awesome find.

Posted by .com 2005-10-18 15:10|| 2005-10-18 15:10|| Front Page Top

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