Her attitude towards her students reveals her narcissism and her (self-perceived) ‘right’ to demand respect. I ran across a post a year or two ago, regarding the differences in attitude between Indian and North American views of status and caste. I do not have a full url, but I think it was at http://unremittingverse.blogspot.com/
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The poem is exactly on point (and exactly points to the problem with the “social sciences” and victimology departments). Thank you Will Warren.

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This, it seems to me, is
part of a wider absence of caste or class distinctions.
Indian intellectuals have tended to downplay these
American achievements: the respect for the individual, the remarkable social mobility, the searching scrutiny to which public officials and state agencies are subjected. They see only the imperial power, the exploiter and the bully, the invader of faraway lands and the manipulator of international organizations to serve the interests of the American economy. The Gulf War, as one friend of mine put it, was undertaken in defence of the American way of driving.
Ramachandra Guha, What We Think of America, Granta 77, 3/28/02

Will Warren: The UnremittingVerse

The Dean’s Box

A dean totes his box up the stairs,
Confounding an onlooker’s code:
In what land does an eminent chair
Serve as coolie, disgraced by his load?

A people who seek subjugation
Inveterate bullies, the lot
Who plunder to fatten their nation
And would rather be cruel than not,

With a lust for power demonic
And a fondness for robbing the poor,
Hellbent on a world hegemonic,
Just itching to start up a war?

Or a country concerned with essentials,
Tired of customs with no useful part,
Where hard work is perceived quintessential
And the practical raised to an art,

Where careers are thrown open to talents,
Where caste has been left behind,
Where mobility generates balance
And competence stands enshrined?

Is it bullies in search of new servants
Or a people too busy for airs?
Let seekers of truth be observant
Of that dean with his box on the stairs.