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One function of a national university is to take ignorant students from narrow backgrounds and immerse them in a wider world where they can meet the kinds of people they have been "protected" from for the previous 18 years and discover that they are, in fact, fully human.
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<p>Great post aparent!!</p>
<p>better still would be making a course on cultural diversity a graduation requirement regardless of major.</p>