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shared by xinniguo on 03 Mar 15 - No Cached

the best of what America offers are owning up to shameful pasts, from slavery to the mistreatment of Native Americans. In some cases, the institutions are apologizing for past moral failings, as Longwood has in Prince Edward County. Others are going even further, with faculty incorporating the long-overlooked histories into their instruction and administrators reaching out to disenfranchised communities that were once excluded from campus life.
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"Ignoring our history doesn’t make it go away. It always ends up bubbling back up to the top at some point," Allen said. "It may be squished down for a while but it will always come up in different ways."
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This  move prompted new academic programs at the university and, according to at least one advocate, served as a tipping point in the national trend toward confronting shameful pasts.
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"can really help to reshape the way the history of the civil rights movement is told and the way American history is told,"
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shared by xinniguo on 01 Dec 14 - No Cached

stilettos and a tailored expensive-looking suit. This wasn’t a case of a low-cut blouse or a thigh-revealing skirt
- xinniguo on 01 Dec 14
  
  Prejudice - caused by induction. women who wear stilettos and expensive suits tend to be not as professional as male doctors in uniforms
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Prejudice - caused by induction. women who wear stilettos and expensive suits tend to be not as professional as male doctors in uniforms</div>
  
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- xinniguo on 01 Dec 14
  
  uniforms - fulfilment of a schema in our head -> all great doctors are in long white coats with formal suits underneath.. -> stereotype
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">uniforms - fulfilment of a schema in our head -> all great doctors are in long white coats with formal suits underneath.. -> stereotype</div>
  
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But forcing all clothing-description categories into one or the other of those two somewhat vague terms is misleading.
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- xinniguo on 01 Dec 14
  
  our perception or ideas are very different. conservative x modern
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">our perception or ideas are very different. conservative x modern</div>
  
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