tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040486715126429420.post5288105782213027942..comments2024-01-16T21:08:41.534-06:00Comments on On a Wing and a Whim: On Shared Ideas in CultureOn a Wing and a Whimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00754595334684845895noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7040486715126429420.post-90852572562908115422009-02-18T00:26:00.000-06:002009-02-18T00:26:00.000-06:00I wonder..I get the point - that fighting a battle...I wonder..<BR/><BR/>I get the point - that fighting a battle won (for the most part) a generation ago serves more to deepen the division than to heal it. <BR/><BR/>Obviously we no longer believe biology is destiny (at least in a collective racial sense) - but have we healed enough racial wounds we can talk frankly about culture? Or are we going to still say that there's no difference in the life outcomes of living in subculture A vs subculture B?<BR/><BR/>Are we yet to the place a person in Subculture A can say to someone in Subculture B "you know, you guys have some serious problems with X, Y, and Z. Which isn't to say we don't have problems A, B, and C (Lordy do we!), but your problems are becoming my problems because I have to pay to clean them up. What can we do about that?" <BR/><BR/>So honest question... how do you have a frank conversation about <I>culture</I> without being called racist? Aside from the obvious of "All As are not Bs" and tending first to the beam in our own eye? [that last actually I'd say we've been doing - badly and to excess - for at least a generation though]Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682072668997410668noreply@blogger.com