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| − | Prior to the professorship of Franz Boas in 1896 [[Culture]] was singular and designated what has been called "The Western Canon"<ref>Allen Bloom, ''The Closing of the American Mind'' (1987) ISBN</ref>, which preaches that cultural relativism is turning American students into unpatriotic nihilists. Since Boss's paper in 1911 and the work of his students like Margaret Mead it is clear that culture is learned and can be whatever we train our children to be.<ref>Charles King, ''Gods of the | + | Prior to the professorship of Franz Boas in 1896 [[Culture]] was singular and designated what has been called "The Western Canon"<ref>Allen Bloom, ''The Closing of the American Mind'' (1987) ISBN</ref>, which preaches that cultural relativism is turning American students into unpatriotic nihilists. Since Boss's paper in 1911 and the work of his students like Margaret Mead it is clear that culture is learned and can be whatever we train our children to be.<ref>Charles King, ''Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century'. (2019-08-06' Doubleday ISBN 978-0385542197</ref> |
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Culture is the uniquely human ability to abstract Knowledge to a form that can be used to accurately instruct others in a different time or place.[1]
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Prior to the professorship of Franz Boas in 1896 Culture was singular and designated what has been called "The Western Canon"[2], which preaches that cultural relativism is turning American students into unpatriotic nihilists. Since Boss's paper in 1911 and the work of his students like Margaret Mead it is clear that culture is learned and can be whatever we train our children to be.[3]
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- ↑ Kevin Laland, Darwin's Unfinished symphony. (2017) University of St Andrews Scotland
- ↑ Allen Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind (1987) ISBN
- ↑ Charles King, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century'. (2019-08-06' Doubleday ISBN 978-0385542197
