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Newspaper Article
DROP THOSE PC ETHNIC ACCENTS
2005
Overview
This new tribalism has been fueled by many sympathetic liberals, but it took one of America's greatest liberals, historian Arthur Shlesinger Jr., to warn us a decade ago of the perils of our \"cult of ethnicity.\" As Shlesinger argued, \"The vision of America as melted into one people prevailed through most of the two centuries of the history of the United States.\" But in our PC age, \"Instead of a transformative nation with an identity all its own, America in this new light is seen as preservative of diverse alien identities.\" He warned that the cult of ethnicity dangerously \"belittles unum and glorifies pluribus.\" Pronunciational correctness is exhausting and time-consuming. If I were to be consistent, Paris would now be Paree, Germany would be Deutschland, sushi would be soosh-EEE, and I would need to pronounce Tony Blair's name with a posh British accent. If I were a TV journalist reporting on Tony Blair meeting with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kawl-eeee-for-nia while they nibble on ethnic food and discuss the state of affairs in Germany, I suspect I couldn't keep up with the demands of the moment.
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Los Angeles Newspaper Group
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