tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714426597280694490.post8996367202589803602..comments2024-02-19T09:05:53.444-08:00Comments on Akit's Complaint Department: Why do people insult Ethnic Studies?Akithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04905273274257369338noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714426597280694490.post-2460390570358890302008-10-29T16:51:00.000-07:002008-10-29T16:51:00.000-07:00I am so wise:Right on the ball about Italian, Ger...I am so wise:<BR/><BR/>Right on the ball about Italian, German, and Croatian Americans being ignored.Akithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04905273274257369338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4714426597280694490.post-39021965960951112502008-10-29T13:20:00.000-07:002008-10-29T13:20:00.000-07:00Ethnic studies get a lot of flak because many peop...Ethnic studies get a lot of flak because many people find them a redundancy (just take the history and art classes offered in the field), have noticed that they rarely exist for white people (I engage in Yugoslav Studies, which despite being the site of 3 wars that involved the United States in the last 15 years, a front in GWOT, and chronic powder keg, is rarely represented), and the perception ethnic studies people then to drop more inappropriately used $10 dollar words and produce less useful knowledge than other departments.<BR/><BR/>Also stuff like this “American history might just seldom mention about the Japanese American Internment Camps and a brief history about how they won redress” is just silly given that the Japanese internment is a staple feature in most school lectures on the Second World War while the round up Italian- Americans and German-Americans or the surveillance by US intelligence of the Croatian community is ignored. This really fuels the perception of ethnic and cultural studies as a bastion of leftist idiocy.I am so wisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10284985412462694814noreply@blogger.com