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The author speaks about the "politics of identity” that Phillip Green, a political scientist at Smith, notes is all-consuming for many of the students. Considering the subject of the passage, which one of the following best describes what the author means by "the politics of identity”?
Answer: Option D
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D
Don’t be led astray by (b); it uses the word “political” to tempt you. Although it is perhaps a good description, it is not within the context of the passage, which focuses on ethnic politics, not national identities through “roots.”
The key to answer this question lies in the second paragraph “notes that for a significant portion of the students the politics of identity is all-consuming. Students he says “are unhappy with the thin gruel of rationalism. They require a therapeutic curriculum to overcome not straightforward racism but ignorant stereotyping.”
The students are stereotyped based on their ethnic groups. Their identity is bound to their race and it is consumes them totally or they are totally abide by it.
That’s why the answer is (d).
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D
Don’t be led astray by (b); it uses the word “political” to tempt you. Although it is perhaps a good description, it is not within the context of the passage, which focuses on ethnic politics, not national identities through “roots.”
The key to answer this question lies in the second paragraph “notes that for a significant portion of the students the politics of identity is all-consuming. Students he says “are unhappy with the thin gruel of rationalism. They require a therapeutic curriculum to overcome not straightforward racism but ignorant stereotyping.”
The students are stereotyped based on their ethnic groups. Their identity is bound to their race and it is consumes them totally or they are totally abide by it.
That’s why the answer is (d).
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