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Uzique wrote:

FEOS wrote:

What I believe Marine was getting at was that, in the US, most professors are hardly "fairly middle-brow" in their politics. Perhaps that is a difference between the US and the UK...as I alluded to earlier.

I think that is where our differences in opinion and experience arises. I can't think of an example over the last year where any one of my professors made an explicitly political statement or expressed a sentiment of such thing. I guess our faculty staff are more 'to the point' and more focussed on delivering the educational part rather than imparting the personal-opinion part .

Of course it depends on the course but Marine is well aware that I'm an English undergraduate student, where the realistic chances of my English professors indoctrinating me with anti-American rhetoric and babble is zero-to-none. I'm not to say that these people aren't political activists or representatives of a particular cause or party... I'm just saying it doesn't happen in the formal and professional environment.

And yes, in an extra-curricular sense the political talks and societies do gather. But to me I just see that an intrinsic part of the University lifestyle and experience; people gathering together from a wide-variety of backgrounds and spectrums with other intellectual and scholarly people to discuss a whole range of interesting topics. I don't really see it as breeding ground of radicalism or political dissent... and in my opinion it does imply a certain degree of the latter for a Professor to be lecturing me on massively anti-American topics.