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...spread of monotheism has culminated in what Francis Fukuyama deems the 'End of History'--the unrivaled dominance of Western-Capitalistic-Monotheistic-Dead-White-Male- Anglo-Saxon-Democratic Society (Historical Studies A-12). Monotheism is incompatible with life in multicultural society, which requires freedom of choice not only in lifestyle, but also in after-lifestyle. What we need to cure the ills of society, therefore, is a viable challenge to the hegemony of traditional thought. In a world where people can choose from fifteen flavors of Snapple, one godjust isn't cutting it anymore...
...found myself in a world I knew nothing about," Potok said of his first encounter with an alien Anglo-culture in the novels of Evelyn Waugh and James Joyce...
...deciding what to admit, Judge Ito will have to perform a particularly fine legal operation. A centuries-old rule of Anglo-American common law holds that jurors should not be told of a defendant's past behavior that is considered too inflammatory for a jury to handle. In all states past crimes are inadmissable as evidence to show that the defendant was predisposed to commit the crime. Thus the judge in William Kennedy Smith's rape trial refused to allow testimony from three young women who each claimed that Smith had assaulted them under similar circumstances. "We fear that...
...education has been Anglo studies," Lamadrid said. "I never found out about the antiquity of Mexican culture until college...
There is no such thing as a dominant Canadian culture. This can be both a good and a bad thing. Canada has never developed a tangible sense of national identity beyond a strange Anglo-Franco-non-Americo cultural loan. The fruitcake model is expensive to maintain, providing government services in multiple tongues and grants to scores of multicultural groups. In Canada these costs are judged to be worth the more tolerant, less divisive and more racially secure situation which fruitcake societies produce...