Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Expressions of Anger

[Deb Smyre (dsmyre]

At 11:00 AM 8/28/1999 -0500, Sharon Villines wrote:
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> What cultural diversity really means in terms of accepting and
>understanding behavior, personal history, and emotional reactions is little
>understood because we haven't lived with it. What a desire for diversity too
>often it means, like all the scholarship programs I was on for 8 years of
>college and graduate school, "we will include you if you behave like us and
>accept our values." And that meant a hierarchical class system.

        Excellent.  I appreciate your truthfulness.

        Deb Smyre
        Owner of the last house built at
        Eno Commons in Durham, NC



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