| For better or worse, essentialism is the quintessential American approach to education. |
| Extreme assertions of diversity, such as Kallen's, imply a kind of racial or ethnic essentialism and separatism, not merely cultural pluralism. |
| It is a different phenomenon from philosophical or metaphysical essentialism. |
| Central to its argument is the idea that the novel offers a critique of essentialism and Manicheism. |
| To recognize these differences should however not lead to an essentialism grounded in sexual or cultural characteristics. |
| For example, Pinker attributes opposition to genetically modified foods to innate and intuitive essentialism. |
