demic and the political worlds collided shortly thereafter under the battle cry "Political Correctness," or PC. As the society at large drifted into a conservatism based more upon the nostalgia evoked by an ex-actor president than upon philosophical econo-political ideals, all sides of the multicultural dialogue dug-in to their positions. Proponents of multiculturalism sought to "make up for lost centuries" by giving equal space in curricula to non-European studies. Opponents - harkening back to the nostalgic, idealized past of "America's melting pot" - argued with the multiculturalists that such "political correctness" was counter-productive, that simple existence did not necessarily endow a cultural perspective with value to the society as a whole.
Scholarly research, similarly, has reflected this dead end: forced to fight the conservative backlash against multiculturalism en toto, researchers have been diverted from exploring applications. Instead, as this paper will acknowledge, recent research has had to return
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