I composed a longish reply to this which seems to have been lost in the muchness of the afternoon. Basically, I think you're saying that those kinds of classifications are inherently divisive? I disagree. People's cultures are part of who they are. But if you are going to taken their menbership in a given group into consideration -- you should do this in a respectful manner. The rules for this can be a bit hard to decipher. But you know what, not enough people even try.
The sad thing is, no I am not going home yet :) >I think neither skin color nor country of origin make a culture. Do you >think Al Sharpton considers Condi Rice to be of the same culture? How >about Colin Powell and Ice-T? Some nappy headed little gang banger in >South Central Los Angeles and Bryant Gumbel? Just because they may all >be equally offended by an off-color, rude, derogatory comment doesn't >mean they share the same cultural identity. Is Eminem culturally >closer to George Bush, Tupac Shakur or Vanilla Ice : )? There is an >awful lot that goes into a cultural identity and although skin color may >be a factor it's nowhere near the deciding factor. Music, religion, >beliefs, politics, tradition and personal identity (how do I see myself >and those around me) There are lots of Hispanics, Whites and Asians who >are equally offended by the remarks. I guess you could paint some >pretty broad strokes if you wanted to push it and that's what tends to >pull us together. > >If attacked by Aliens we would all be humans before American and Iraqi, >or Christian and Muslim. >If North Korea attacked we would be Americans rather than Black or >White, Asian or Hispanic. >If race wars broke out we would tend to divide by racial lines, Whites, >Blacks, Asians.. >If the was an economic failure it would be rich against poor regardless >of color because that is our culture >If you're in South Central Los Angeles it depends on what block you live >on, or what color your bandanna is. How culturally different are Crips >and Bloods, 75th St from 83rd? > >Average middle class, average lower class or upper class how different >are the Christians from the Muslims, or the Buddhists or Jews? What is >stronger my economic culture or religious culture? > > > >Dana Tierney wrote: >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232423 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
