http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/06/10/popular-myths-multicultural-temper/ A First Things Blog Sun, 26 May 2013 03:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/06/10/popular-myths-multicultural-temper/comment-page-1/#comment-16333 JB in CA Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:25:10 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=17048#comment-16333 Brettongarcia: Nice question. But much as I’m tempted to answer “prescriptive,” I can’t help but suspect that there are many who really do intend it to be descriptive. It’s hard to resist the conclusion that they—at least those of this latter group that should know better—are suffering from a Freudian illusion. We do want things to be (have been) better than they actually are (were), and sometimes that gets in the way of our better judgment, especially when we perceive that so much is at stake.

]]> http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2010/06/10/popular-myths-multicultural-temper/comment-page-1/#comment-16276 Brettongarcia Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:36:24 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=17048#comment-16276 Was this idea ever really intended to be accurately Descriptive? Or wasn’t it rather always, rather more Prescriptive?

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