keannu
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- Dec 27, 2010
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- Student or Learner
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- Korean
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- South Korea
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- South Korea
This writing is really hard to understand. What does the underlined mean? Does it mean the university is not showing opinion for and against multiculturalists, while you can find the opposite opinions outside of university? It's really confusing.
ex)Over the last two decades, the university had emerged as one of the main battlegrounds in a multicultural society, whose disputes cluster around multiculturalist challenges to what is perceived as the homogeniety of the society, its refusal to celebrate and respect the beliefs, desires, needs, and priorities of members of minority groups. Unfortunately, the university's ability to oversee a negotiated settlement of this dispute is significantly undermined by its own deep implication in the conflict, a situation no doubt arising from the university's manifestly cultural character, its dual role as culture's conservator and critic. While globalization makes this institutional duality ruinous, it is possible to find it in contemporary multiculturalist criticism, as well as in the kinds of conflicts for and to which it speaks. By clarifying the university's role in the modern state, it becomes possible to reimagine the university as a space within which consensus is possible at the same time that 'difference' is taken serioulsy.
ex)Over the last two decades, the university had emerged as one of the main battlegrounds in a multicultural society, whose disputes cluster around multiculturalist challenges to what is perceived as the homogeniety of the society, its refusal to celebrate and respect the beliefs, desires, needs, and priorities of members of minority groups. Unfortunately, the university's ability to oversee a negotiated settlement of this dispute is significantly undermined by its own deep implication in the conflict, a situation no doubt arising from the university's manifestly cultural character, its dual role as culture's conservator and critic. While globalization makes this institutional duality ruinous, it is possible to find it in contemporary multiculturalist criticism, as well as in the kinds of conflicts for and to which it speaks. By clarifying the university's role in the modern state, it becomes possible to reimagine the university as a space within which consensus is possible at the same time that 'difference' is taken serioulsy.