You see what you want to see, you hear what you want to hear. (other places, but I got that from Neilson, The Point)
I don't get your point, care to elaborate?
Without a full reading of the article, I get that they wanted to celebrate their holiday but did not feel comfortable doing so.
They weren't trying to get everyone else to observe with them, were they?
As for skin tone, you do realize that that is a natural inherent survival mode that the human race (and all living beings are ingrained with... plants, animals, bacteria, virus included) You survive by being with those who are similar, like you are.
Yes, there is one race, but many different cultures. Most are able to co-exist if they abide by the rules when they move to another culture area.
My point is that a person who fled from people like herself and found safe harbor in the US grew up to be a PC miserablist like so many "traditional" American women...except that she didn't want diversity while celebrating her cherished holiday.
Or White people wishing her *Happy Holidays!", presumably
We knew what it meant to be at once invisible and too visible. But at least once a year, on Tet, that racial isolation felt self-chosen; this holiday, the most important day of the year, seemed to be just for us.
It's unusual to read than an ethnic group wanting to keep traditions "just for us" in an age when combating "privilege" and legislating "equity" is on the front burner.
These are people obsessed with skin tone. They don't realize that there is one race - human race.
You see what you want to see, you hear what you want to hear. (other places, but I got that from Neilson, The Point)
I don't get your point, care to elaborate?
Without a full reading of the article, I get that they wanted to celebrate their holiday but did not feel comfortable doing so.
They weren't trying to get everyone else to observe with them, were they?
As for skin tone, you do realize that that is a natural inherent survival mode that the human race (and all living beings are ingrained with... plants, animals, bacteria, virus included) You survive by being with those who are similar, like you are.
Yes, there is one race, but many different cultures. Most are able to co-exist if they abide by the rules when they move to another culture area.
My point is that a person who fled from people like herself and found safe harbor in the US grew up to be a PC miserablist like so many "traditional" American women...except that she didn't want diversity while celebrating her cherished holiday.
Or White people wishing her *Happy Holidays!", presumably
It's unusual to read than an ethnic group wanting to keep traditions "just for us" in an age when combating "privilege" and legislating "equity" is on the front burner.