Re: Yom Kippur and diversity in groups | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Catherine Harper (tylikeskimo.com) | |
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 14:56:07 -0600 (MDT) |
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Racheli Gai wrote: > Does anyone out there know when Muslim holidays happen? > Does anyone take care not to schedule then? > I doubt it! I haven't belonged to one group as yet which took notice of > other minorities, but whenever anyone forgets when a Jewish holidy takes > place, recriminations start flying in no time. > > WHY??? It does depend on the group of people, doesn't it? I studied for some years in a department that was roughtly half Muslim, half Jewish, and I lived for a while in Turkey, so I'm rather more aware of Muslim holidays than most. Muslim holidays may or may not play a major role in the scheduling of any partiuclar public event, because "public" doesn't mean some random sampling of people off the street, and it is pragmatic to weight consideration of different schedule constraints in terms of what people are interested in participating in the first place. (For instance, while I would hesitate to project this beyond the people I know, I'm fairly certain that none of my Muslim friends are interested in nude hottubbing -- well, okay, at least among the people I've kept in touch with, I can think of at least one exception.) It's a flawed system, and one that needs to be carefully considered, but wht do you do? I don't expect, say, a mycology conference to give any particular consideration to pagan holidays. I'd be surprised, though, if events dealing with the local poly community did not, as pagans are a large and visable part of that population. And don't even start me ranting on visability, stereotyping and Islam... At my job before last, the largest single ethic group (and I'm very much including WASPs) was Hindi, and no group had a majority. Most people did vaguely get an idea of who was likely to clear out early on Fridays, who wasn't eating during daylight hours this month, or whatever. And no one ever gave me any crap if I said "sorry, I really can't make it that day, that's a religious holiday for me" or to anyone who said "gee, let's not go to the BBQ place this time, please, I'm not eating meat today". (Though they tried to talk me in coming back early from my honeymoon.) Catherine _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L
- Yom Kippur and diversity in groups, (continued)
- Yom Kippur and diversity in groups Racheli Gai, September 26 2003
- Re: Yom Kippur and diversity in groups Catherine Harper, September 26 2003
- Re: Yom Kippur and diversity in groups Jeanne Goodman, September 26 2003
- Re: Yom Kippur and diversity in groups Diane Margolis, September 27 2003
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