Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Discrimination and political stereotypes

[Sharon Villines (sharon]

On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 11:45  AM, WOLF1GDSFM [at] aol.com wrote:

> I live in a community that has resistance to developing a statement of 
> shared
> values other than the value of protecting our investment.  For now, I 
> am
> seeing how it will go, but to me it seems like this resistance is 
> imposing a
> value which is sort of:
>
> our community will have no community-wide shared values other than 
> that of
> protecting our investment.

One way to approach this might be to look at what "protecting our 
investment" means. For a cohousing community, the investment usually 
includes some shared values, more than one  might expect in a "random" 
neighborhood. Sustainable environmental choices? Concern for the 
neighbors?

Perhaps what people are really saying is that they are afraid of being 
restrictive or exclusive, or of being restricted or excluded. But as 
you say, you are feeling restricted and excluded by this position.

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

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