minorities | minorities
Aug.23.2012
Talk about the "New Normal", I turned sixteen out west in 1968 surrounded by colorful fashions, music that stirred the highest emotions, confused young men in camouflage and fights for the rights of minority groups like Indians, African Americans, Farm Workers, Drug Users, Pimps and Prostitutes. No...
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Jul.26.2012
You might not think of a Caucasian as a minority but I often feel like one and today I understand why. When my mother's ancestors came to New Amsterdam they called themselves the "Low Dutch." They came from the lowlands of Holland and wanted to distinguish themselves from those of Germanic heritage...
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Dec.21.2011
I exchanged emails this week with a musical friend. He’d been practicing for a performance, he told me: “The Jew leads the caroling, of course.” I haven’t actually sung one of them in decades, but I too, know the words and tunes, at least to the traditional Christmas songs of my youth: “Silent...
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Sep.20.2011
.One of the most besetting sins that seems to afflict our society is the prevalence of discrimination either through the law, or through ill informed antipathy from religiously inclined people, against those who have a minority sexual preference. In Christian societies the oppression that exists...
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Aug.10.2011
The violence in London and the rest of the England is unbearable; I don't understand why many young people from different communities would make a choice to waste their energy in such negative things. The people who are paying are people who have lost their livelihoods, and the insurance firms...
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Jul.30.2011
Is it typical expat behaviour that North Carolina’s governor made herself White? Play up your origins where it matters and then go all mainstream? Why did Nikki Haley register her race as “white” in her voter registeration form in 2001 and why has it got noticed only now?
The state’s Democratic...
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Jul.17.2011
Why would a Japanese living in the US half the year want to read my book about an Indian Muslim woman’s journey to Pakistan that comes with psychological baggage? Why am I posing this query when I do read Latin American, South East Asian, European and American fiction and non-fiction? In...
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Oct.06.2010
When most people think of racists, images of angry white men in white robes and hoods burning crosses in the yards of terrified blacks come to mind. However, since the advent of the Internet, a racist might actually be in the cubicle next to you at work or happen to be the person that will...
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Sep.10.2009
Such a pretty girl and I did not put up her photograph. It was deliberate. The good-looking dead grab more newsprint and TV space because we need a relief from eyesores of calamities and tragedies even if they come in the form of victims. Especially if they are victims. Our sorrow can get...
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Jun.20.2009
At the traffic light riding pillion on this snazzy bike was a woman in a burqa, only the slits making her eyes visible. This is not a regular sight in Mumbai. She was holding on tight to the fellow riding the bike.
They were a young couple. What surprised me was this guy. He was wearing tight...
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