Richard Rodriguez Quotes About Diversity

• Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Father, Justice, Diversity

  Richard Rodriguez (1993). “Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father”, Penguin Group USA

• No es de extrañar que al mismo tiempo que las universidades estadounidenses se han comprometido seriamente con la diversidad, se hayan convertido en cárceles del pensamiento. No estamos hablando de diversidad en ningún sentido real. Estamos hablando de versiones marrones, negras y blancas de la misma ideología política.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Real, Commitment, White

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Mean, Ethnicity, Race

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Brother, Simple, Differences

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

• America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that our Hispanic neighbor is going to marry our daughter. America has nothing like the Spanish vocabulary for miscegenation. Mulatto, mestizo, Creole - these Spanish and French terms suggest, by their use, that miscegenation is a fact of life. America has only black and white. In eighteenth-century America, if you had any drop of African blood in you, you were black.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Daughter, Black And White, Blood

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

• Mexico is sex and Canada is mind. There is much about Canada that I find admirable - the treatment of immigrants, for example, particularly those from Central America during the recent civil wars there. But there is confusion too: I know of Croatian Nazis who are subsidized by the Canadian government to maintain their racist culture. There is Canada, trying to sustain diversity without knowing exactly what it's doing.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Sex, War, Knowing

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

• I find L.A. very interesting, partly because I think something new is forming there, but not in a moment of good fellowship as you might think from all this "diversity" claptrap. It's not as if we'll all go down to the Civic Center in our ethnic costumes and dance around.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Thinking, Diversity, Interesting

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

• We're looking at such enormous complexity and variety that it makes a mockery of "celebrating diversity." In the L.A. of the future, no one will need to say, "Let's celebrate diversity." Diversity is going to be a fundamental part of our lives. That's what it's going to mean to be modern.

  Richard Rodríguez

  Mean, Diversity, Needs

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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