Eskimos Know Best

William Carlson, president of the State University of New York, describes how his experience of living with an Inuit family in Greenland disproved his belief of belonging to a superior race, and states his beliefs in the brotherhood of humanity, the virtue of patience, the need of self-evaluation, t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carlson, William S. (William Samuel)
Format: Audio
Language:unknown
Published: Digital Collections and Archives, Tufts University
Subjects:
Science
Cultural relations
Belief change
Self-evaluation
Racism
Prejudice
Brotherliness
Hope
Optimism
Progress
Virtue
Patience
Loneliness
State University of New York
United States
New York
Greenland
eskimo*
inuit
Online Access:https://dl.tufts.edu/catalog/tufts:MS025.006.016.00011.00001
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Summary:William Carlson, president of the State University of New York, describes how his experience of living with an Inuit family in Greenland disproved his belief of belonging to a superior race, and states his beliefs in the brotherhood of humanity, the virtue of patience, the need of self-evaluation, the unity of family, and the method of science. Contains a short advertisement for This I Believe book (this essay included in the book).

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