April 2011
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Diversity is inefficient →
When I speak at anti-war rallies the audience is usually all White, when I speak at immigration rallies the audience is usually all Brown… Global warming, usually White, police brutality, usually Black, and so on. The progressive movement is segregated, and race is the tripwire that prevents us from coming together. Not only do I find this to be very discouraging, it is self-defeating.
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March 2011
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Why are all the cool, environmentally-correct...
The restaurants listed for Down to Earth Week feature ethical eats and sustainable practices. Wonder why the selection has no ‘ethnic’ restaurants or venues that draw mixed crowds – I’ll leave it up to you to define mixed, and it’s not necessarily a Benetton ad. It’s the same old dilemma; hipster places where pro-integrationists gather, are very homogeneous and far from being...
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lisforlife asked: Just curious, are you a student? What gave you the idea for doing a tumblr on diversity and inclusion? It kind of sounds like something that is part of a bigger project of some sort...
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lisforlife asked: No problem. I find your tumblr quite interesting as well, especially the idea of “linguistic inclusion” and posting comments in a person’s preferred language. I admire that. I’m currently doing grad school to become an ESL teacher and one of the major issues that I’m trying to figure out is how to incorporate the use of an ESL student’s native language into the...
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Do you find this offensive?
The biggest problem with old-style retweets is people editing content in and out of them, producing a Chinese whispers trail of inaccuracy.
Source: Pete Ashton
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100 Years of Naval Aviation: Why diversity matters... →
Many an aircraft has been saved by a sharp, junior, inexperienced crewmember. Often it is because of this lack of experience, and the complacency that may come with experience, which makes them able to see what others cannot. This is what diversity is all about – it’s about maximizing the service’s potential by involving different sets of eyes and hearing everyone’s voice. Diversity is more than...
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She didn't realize she was Caucasian →
Chinese immersion program attract non-Asians:
Tzara, who has been at CAIS since pre-kindergarten, said she didn’t realize she was Caucasian until she grew much taller than her classmates in fourth grade. “I never felt like I was different,” said Tzara, who also plays volleyball, basketball and soccer.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Comments are real interesting and deserve...
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The Diversity Paradox →
This is one of the many paradoxes of the gentrification generation - the “coolest” places in our cities, the most “authentic”, tend to be white and middle class, while the “cheesiest” and most touristy are far more diverse.
As hipsters, the most self-aware generation ever, with generally pro-integrationist politics, we are acutely aware of this fact, and I...
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Blinded by the White: Social Media and Diversity →
If social media is going to be a public “face” of organizations, and drive kinship with the populace, we have to do more than rely on a bunch of 30 year-old White people to do so.
Source: Convince & Convert
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Happy Spring Equinox!
It’s also World Anti-Racism Day. I am celebrating the mark of equal day and night, and the arrival of spring rather than the latter.
mantleofgold: looks great, all the best!
Thanks mantleofgold, and I appreciate the follow.
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Can Alexandra Wallace Yell Racism in a Crowded... →
Thank you Alexandra Wallace. The video got so many ‘eyeballs’, raised fuller awareness about racism, reaching so many including those who might not have shown interest in the topic. Reactions from far and wide remind us how far we have come and how much more work needs to be done. Thank you for making us think harder.
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Diversity leads to a drop in trust →
The greater the ethnic diversity in Amsterdam neighbourhoods, the lower the sense of well-being of its residents. They feel less at home there, or say they are more concerned about future developments.
The research shows that a higher number of non-Western immigrants leads to a reduced sense of security and well-being among residents. A larger number of Western immigrants leads to increased...
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Why I'm not celebrating Black History Month
Interviewer: Black history month you find…
Morgan Freeman: Ridiculous.
Interviewer: Why?
Morgan Freeman: You’re going to relegate my history to a month?
Interviewer: Oh, come on.
Morgan Freeman: What do you do with yours? Which month is white history month?
Interviewer: (pause) Well, I’m Jewish.
Morgan Freeman: Okay. Which month is jewish history month?
Interviewer: There isn’t one.
Morgan Freeman: Oh, oh. Why not? Do you want one?
Interviewer: No.
Morgan Freeman: Right. I don’t either. I don’t want a black history month. Black history is American history.
Interviewer: How are we going to get rid of racism?
Morgan Freeman: Stop talking about it.
Question: IS MORGAN FREEMAN CORRECT?
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(Why) Do Asian Americans have a target on their... →
The perpetual foreigner stereotype is another divisive tool that separates ‘us’ and ‘them’.
So, sadly I wasn’t too surprised by ‘Asians in the Library’. I’ve learned that anti-Asian American sentiment is not only widespread, it’s also socially acceptable.
Source: Psychology Today
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How is the silo mentality developed in the first... →
One of the biggest challenges in other countries that are as diverse as NZ is the avoidance of the development of insular minority communities that are not connected to everyone else.
Source: Indian Weekender
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Teaching diversity — a month is fine; all the time... →
All people and groups should be honored and celebrated — but not for a single day, week or month.
Source: MPNnow.com
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Are you going to write in Cantonese?
As a generation 1.5 Canadian, I didn’t know how to respond to that. Cantonese is an oral language spoken in parts of Southeast Asia and by some Chinese diaspora – a written language it is not. As someone who navigates as an Anglophone in Canada, the question took me by surprise.
I was talking in English with a Canadian (read ‘white’) about my plans for writing when he posed the question. Imagine...
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Does Your Company's Diversity Match Your... →
“Diverse organizations will out-think, out-innovate and outperform a homogeneous organization every single time.”
Customer diversity
Board diversity
Employee diversity
Supplier diversity
Source: Reuters
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Diversity needs to be part of corporate culture:... →
Sometimes perceptions of inequality can be just as influential as reality, she added.
“If I think I’m going to be treated unfairly in an environment, that’s going to change my behaviour,” she said. “It doesn’t matter whether or not I’m actually going to be treated fairly, it’s what I’m thinking, and leaders need to understand that.”
Source: The Telegram
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ASUA candidates’ backgrounds demonstrate real... →
The notion of “diversity” should never be defined strictly in terms of race or ethnicity. Diversity doesn’t have to look like a United Colors of Benetton ad, or a picture in a brochure of a black man, a Hispanic woman, their white friend and an Asian thrown in for good measure.
Real diversity comes from a full spectrum of perspectives, and color is hardly the end-all,...
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Language shift →
The spread of social networks and web communities is making English exchange among non-native speakers the new norm. At the same time, such technology is changing perceptions about “standard” English.
“Very soon, businesses and individuals will increasingly move away from a deficit model of ESL speech to the realization that speaking English as a second language means that the individual comes...
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No Contradiction →
In sum, diversity is actually not a matter of political correctness (although the concept can be perverted to be just that). It is a way of bringing together people into an organization that helps to ensure that the whole is more, rather than less, than the sum of its parts.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
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Canadian multiculturalism and social inclusion →
If we think of what are Canadian norms today and what they were a hundred years ago, we realize that such norms have evolved for the better. There is a mistaken belief that what we define as ‘culture’ or ‘norms’ are fixed or unchanging and mutually exclusive categories, thus removing any notion of how culture in diverse societies is created through dynamic intermixing, social interaction and...
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Mentorship promotes diversity →
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Pan Am Games committed to diversity →
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Canada lags behind →
McKinsey & Co. has found the companies where women are most strongly represented at board or top-management levels are also those that perform best, and are better prepared for global competition.
Source: The Globe and Mail
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Diversity makes business sense →
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All Together →
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Visible minorities earn less, even subsequent... →
As noted in the Globe & Mail article, Philip Oreopoulos’ study found those with non-English sounding names missed out on interview opportunities. When such barriers to getting an interview exist, and opportunities hard to come by, then one may settle for lower wages to make ends meet. It is often assumed that a non-English sounding name equates to an audible minority - someone with a...
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Let's get to that sticky floor →
Mind the ‘sticky floor’, it is attributing to the brain drain in North America and beyond. Young visible minorities have seen their parents’ careers impacted by the ‘sticky floor’ and choose to seek their fortunes elsewhere.
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Warning: the following post contains offal...
I was at the Cultural Centre Restaurant on Family Day and Oscar Sunday. Only six days apart and the dimsum was markedly different, and a favourite rice dish was taken off the menu.
The shrimp dumpling was much smaller, more refined like Hong Kong-sized portions. Or one could argue it reflects cost cutting. The mixed tripe dish was not the mixed tripe that I tasted only days ago; which is beef...
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Racial profiling or diversity? →
Schools need to focus more attention on preparing children from a dizzying assortment of cultural backgrounds for a new generation of jobs, so high-tech employers don’t need to import highly skilled workers from overseas, Morrill said.
Source: The Seattle Times
