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Move for understanding divides US academics EducationGuardian.co.uk
Staff and agencies Tuesday October 2, 2001
A row has broken out in America about whether students need to understand
the people who committed the recent terrorist attacks.
Since the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, academics and
teachers around the US have emphasised the need to understand foreign
cultures.
Some academics, however, maintain multiculturalism has gone too far.
The concern is that loyalty in US campuses and schools could be split in the
event of war, as happened during Vietnam.
At the centre of the debate is a Yale University history professor, Paul
Kennedy, who, in a recent lecture, asked listeners to put themselves in the
place of Palestinians celebrating the terrorist attacks.
Most contentiously in the current climate, he went on to say American
military, economic and diplomatic might and offensive cultural messages
understandably provoked hatred.
Donald Kagan, a classics professor at the same university, objected last
week, saying Professor Kennedy and his colleagues had descended into a
"blame the victim" mentality.
Elsewhere, some academics have added pacifist writers to their reading
lists. One at Notre Dame has added more material about Islamic religious
doctrine and one at New York University has been lecturing on the Pentagon's
treatment of Osama bin Laden.
At US high schools, social studies, history and foreign language classes are
all coming under pressures.
Increasingly xenophobic anger against Islamic cultures is being challenged
by those arguing that students need to know why the attacks took place,
according to an article in yesterdayês Washington Post.
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