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 Rodriguez

  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 Rodriguez

  Real, Commitment, White

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• 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 Rodriguez

  Mean, Ethnicity, Race

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• 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 Rodriguez

  Brother, Simple, Differences

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• Estados Unidos nunca ha tenido un vocabulario muy amplio para el mestizaje. Decimos que nos gusta la diversidad, pero no nos gusta la idea de que nuestro vecino hispano vaya a casarse con nuestra hija. América no tiene nada parecido al vocabulario español del mestizaje. Mulato, mestizo, criollo: estos términos españoles y franceses sugieren, por su uso, que el mestizaje es un hecho. En América sólo hay blancos y negros. En la América del siglo XVIII, si tenías una gota de sangre africana, eras negro.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Daughter, Black And White, Blood

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• México es sexo y Canadá es mente. Hay muchas cosas de Canadá que me parecen admirables: el trato a los inmigrantes, por ejemplo, sobre todo a los procedentes de Centroamérica durante las recientes guerras civiles en ese país. Pero también hay confusión: Sé de nazis croatas subvencionados por el gobierno canadiense para mantener su cultura racista. Ahí está Canadá, intentando mantener la diversidad sin saber exactamente lo que hace.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Sex, War, Knowing

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• 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 Rodriguez

  Thinking, Diversity, Interesting

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• 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 Rodriguez

  Mean, Diversity, Needs

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