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“The people who say poverty is no excuse for low performance are now using teacher accountability as an excuse for doing nothing about poverty.”

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“Loss is a given of existence.”

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Book:Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

Source: Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

“Like a doctor watching a patient in agony, the nostalgist feels powerless before the passage of time, as was the case for many anthropologists. Some of them felt outrage and a sense, no doubt, of personal loss.”

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Book:Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

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“Nostalgia is intimately tied up with their desire to imagine a different world: one able to withstand cultural homogenization and preserve ethnic diversity, one where social and political recognition can be gained for all. Truly, hope is never far from nostalgia.”

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Book:Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

Source: Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times

“An so it is out of fear of disappearance, for the children of the future, that we seek to preserve, to "museumify" ways of life. In this "age of nostalgia", when faced with losing everthing, something of the past must absolutely be carried forward, of identities and cultures, whether our own or those of others.”

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Book:Perdre sa culture

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