Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: "Like-Minded"

[Elaine (itchyink]

I guess what i miss is more racial diversity. Cohousing seems largely white
from my observations.
Elaine
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> From: Casey Morrigan <cjmorr [at] pacbell.net>
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 21:55:23 -0700
> To: "'cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org'" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: RE: [C-L]_"Like-Minded"
> 
> 
> If I could sidetrack here - something that I have to laugh about, about
> myself, is how I thought that having political and other stuff in common
> would make it easier to live with people in community.  So really it is the
> commitment to community itself that seems to be the glue that holds us
> together, because while we might mostly call ourselves lefties there is a
> whole wide range of opinion in there!  Apart from a range of left leaning
> political ideas, there are lots of child rearing ideas, health and eating
> ideas, neatness vs. messiness in carports ideas, gun safety ideas, and so
> on.  It seems, now that I know myself and others better, that perhaps it
> was a myth that we were like minded about much except being determined to
> be in a community.
> 
> Great topic!
> 
> Casey Morrigan
> Two Acre Wood
> Sebastopol CA
> 
> 
>>> I have no patience with racism, homophobia, etc. but
>> frankly the reason I'm
>>> doing cohousing is because I WANT to live in community with
>> a bunch of other
>>> highly intelligent, lefty, green communitarians! I don't
>> WANT to live in
>>> community with a bunch of Republican, NRA folks whose
>> favorite form of
>>> entertainment is TV!
>> 
>> I think I'm rather offended by this.
>> 
>> -> 
> 
> 
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