As a college administrator for 15 years, I am sorry that any educator, and particularly any observer of cultures, is prey to such prejudice about a whole class of people. As a faculty member for 15 years before that, I also lamented such prejudices. I'm not an anthropologist, but I recognize generalizing from inadequate information when I see it.
Free speech is precious.
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