... , that very thing can cause culture shock. Robert Mcbride is a high school teacher from Oak Park, Illinois, who had a lot of guilty feelings when he discovered that he was bringing culture shock to his students. "Teaching Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn can do more harm than good. What will they experience when confronting the word "nigger" on nearly every page. I worry that ... the novel will isolate and alienate African American students (Mcbride, "Culture Shock," Social Education, 1999, v63, p410)." Mcbride goes on to mention in his article how kids have a hard time unders...

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