Well, the issues are exactly the ones we've been talking about, whether you take this decentralization seriously, and whether you admit more people from smaller places who might go back to small places and have more control over those places as opposed to admitting people who will play a role in the larger world of business and politics. And of course places like Harvard want the big fish who are playing the big games, which I think is a disaster in the long run. The policy we talked about in our area, Learning and Teaching, deals with the tremendous world revolution which involves great dislocations of populations. The danger is that people lose their identity with their culture and they lose their identity with their place. In our department we think that this is a dangerous situation.
Humans have to feel some place as home, that their identity somewhere.
Just to be floating around is very uncomfortable for many humans. So in Learning and Teaching we are concerned about how to create a sense of local identity and more responsibility toward a place and toward principles of generosity to other people, including tolerance for others. That's a good question. I have both U.S. students who have been abroad and experienced these issues in the Peace Corps, for example, and also international students who construe the world the way I have been describing. From them I learn a tremendous amount about the local context they are facing, as I did just now from your talking about Cyprus.