Re: Describing Diversity
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com)
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 07:48:19 -0700 (PDT)
> On Sep 11, 2016, at 2:15 PM, carol collier via Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] 
> cohousing.org> wrote:
> 
> Are you suggesting that if we look at differences this makes the difference 
> become an issue?

Yes. And to what extent this particular difference is important. Do we want to 
put numbers on it, and how do we find the numbers? What is the definition?

Why don’t we put income differences? Car ownership? Bicycling to work? 

> Are you suggesting that we should be color blind? Just wondering?

But what is “color”. The distinctions between people in terms of color have 
nothing to do with white or non-white. Does anyone think of themselves or their 
neighbors as non-white? Are any of us are white?

My daughter once asked why people kept calling the son we adopted black.  My 5 
month old son was then as white as she was with her Jewish heritage. I 
explained that even though his mother was white and his father black, society 
considered him to be black. And Chinese are considered yellow and Indians red. 
She looked at me in almost disgust and said, “And there are purple people and 
green people and so on. Adults think kids will believe anything."

The distinctions that are more important are likely to be ethnic, cultural, and 
religious. Some of us are practicing catholics, protestants, jews, and muslims, 
and active in the ethical society. Most are vanilla protestants who only 
observe Christmas. Not even Easter. I think that would be most interesting to a 
prospective resident.

Sharon
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Sharon Villines
Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
http://www.takomavillage.org





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