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Real Diversity is About Confronting Power
What these examples speak to is our society’s confused, superficial understanding of race and diversity, and how this confusion underscores racial privilege. Achieving real, inclusive diversity is not just about accepting and celebrating difference. It’s also about confronting racialized power.
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It's articles like this that make white people think "diversity" is just a code word for "anti-white". This article takes complex issues and boils them down to "white people don't want non-whites in their club." While I won't preclude the notion that there is definitely institutional racism to factor into the equation, I wish the author would entertain similar notions concerning other factors for the issues she is talking about, and take into account a bit of context for them as well.
First of all, "ridicule" is a very strong word for that example, and though a tasteless comment, is it unsurprising that names containing spelling combinations and phonemes uncommon or nonexistent to the language spoken in that country will draw attention. Acting like it was malicious is making mountains out of mole hills.
http://www.quora.com/Why-are-some-Americans-so-bad-at-pronouncing-foreign-names
Pure nonsense. Most of my white ancestors didn't keep their original names or name their children names from their original countries when they immigrated to the US. From spelling changes to out-right renaming, this is not and has not ever been about stamping out "diversity" or maintaining a white-centered culture. It's been about assimilation, and there is nothing wrong with assimilating.
Ahh, here we go. Not only is assimilating into the culture of your ...
Read FullThat was an incredibly well written analysis. I wish I had more than one upvote to give you.