“It's no surprise that at the same time that American universities have engaged in a serious commitment to diversity, they have been thought-prisons. We are not talking about diversity in any real way. We are talking about brown, black, white versions of the same political ideology.” WayHas BeensRealPoliticalBlackWhiteTalkingSeriousDiversityCommitmentPrisonSurpriseUniversityVersionsIdeologyEngagedBrownNot TalkingBlack WhitePolitical IdeologyAmerican Universities Author:Richard Rodriguez
“It is very curious that the United States and Canada both assume that diversity means only race and ethnicity. They never assume it might mean more Nazis, or more Southern Baptists. That's diversity too, you know.” KnowsMeanStatesMightUnitedRaceUnited StatesDiversityAssumingCuriousCanadaSouthernNaziBaptistsEthnicityNever AssumeSouthern BaptistRace And Ethnicity Author:Richard Rodriguez
“For me, diversity is not a value. Diversity is what you find in Northern Ireland. Diversity is Beirut. Diversity is brother killing brother. Where diversity is shared - where I share with you my difference - that can be valuable. But the simple fact that we are unlike each other is a terrifying notion. I have often found myself in foreign settings where I became suddenly aware that I was not like the people around me. That, to me, is not a pleasant discovery.” PeopleFactsValuesFoundDifferencesSimpleShareBrotherDiversityDiscoveryNotionKillingValuableSettingSettingsPleasantIrelandNorthern IrelandBeirut Author:Richard Rodriguez
“My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.” ActionDecisionClassStruggleMy FamilyWorking ClassAffirmative ActionAffirmative Author:Richard Rodriguez
“But very early in life I became part of the majority culture and now don't think of myself as a minority. Yet the university said I was one. Anybody who has met a real minority - in the economic sense, not the numerical sense - would understand how ridiculous it is to describe a young man who is already at the university, already well into his studies in Italian and English Renaissance literature, as a minority.” ThinkingMenWellsSaidRealYoungCultureLiteratureStudyEconomicMetsMajorityUniversityRidiculousYoung ManMinoritiesItalianRenaissance Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Affirmative action ignores our society's real minorities - members of the disadvantaged classes, no matter what their race. We have this ludicrous bureaucratic sense that certain racial groups, regardless of class, are minorities. So what happens is those "minorities" at the very top of the ladder get chosen for everything.” RealMatterHappensActionCertainRaceClassGroupsMembersNo Matter WhatChosenMinoritiesOur SocietyLaddersAffirmative ActionAffirmativeDisadvantaged Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Aesthetics is both politics and philosophy, a series of agreements and disagreements between subjective minds.” MindPhilosophySeriesAgreementSubjectiveAestheticsDisagreement Author:Jimenez Lai
“As a visual discourse, architecture requires trained individuals to work on the refined philosophical debates. School gave me the necessary training, and I've built on this based on my own aesthetics, as most do.” SchoolIndividualMy OwnTrainingBuiltPhilosophicalArchitectureDebateVisualsDiscourseAestheticsRefined Author:Jimenez Lai
“Morphology happens over time. It's not necessarily a bad thing.” HappensBad ThingsMorphology Author:Jimenez Lai