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To: The Philosopher who wrote (12597)	4/29/2001 5:43:44 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 82486

I forgot to mention St John's "Great Books" classics program. Please note the reading programs... sjca.edu Quite...Eurocentric. In fact totally Eurocentric. It's your school, not mine. But it's odd that you have a problem with PC women's studies and ethnic studies when there is available, and you went to, a school that quite clearly has nothing of the kind. Dear Jane Austen breaks the testosterone fest in Junior year, but aside from her it is quite the Male Studies Program. You need not mourn the passing of the white male curriculum- it is alive and well at your alma mater. Let all who wish to imbibe it, do so. I've no problem with it. I love the classics. I like other things as well, outside of the realm of those works typically viewed as "classics". I have found great Indian works and Indian poetry to be the equal of anything in the west. I have found Eastern writings that are also the equal of anything in the West. Classics are defined by the people in power. Right now those people, in the West, are still mostly male and mostly white. When this changes in a really meaningful way the "classics" may change a bit. It will be interesting to see.

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