Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 09:35:35 -0800 From: Patrick Crosby <pcrosby-AT-ieee.org> Subject: [BOU:] Re: Habiti abd melting pots In very simple summary terms, you post makes this sound like a sort of war of competing habiti (Habiti, I think, would be the plural of habitus). In America there is the old metaphor of the "melting pot," where people from various disparate cultures all "blend in" and become one homogeneous (and of course, capitalistic) blob. Of course, this was almost never enforced by direct administrative action *against* any particular religious minority (still less would they ever have called it "secularism"), you simply weren't allowed to work your job, or attend school, if you weren't conforming to a certain dress code , or in many cases, wearing a certain uniform. (As a young boy in Catholic School in the 1950s, for example, like every other boy I had to wear a light blue shirt with a dark blue tie. All the girls had to wear something even sillier looking). In California, the voters overwhelmingly approved an "English as the Official Language) initiative in response to the large influx of Hispanic person surreptitiously making it across the US/Mexican border. This, however, had had little if any practical effect. It simply makes it unnecessary for traffic court judges and other officials to learn Spanish, I suppose. In closing consider this. What do you do in your kitchen if you're trying to melt something in a pot, and there is a certain small section with is remaining solid? I always turn up the heat. Emrah Goker wrote: > I was reading a Turkish translation of the January 6th editorial of > Wall Street Journal Europe (unfortunately it's not available online > for free) on the "affair". The Journal reports that under <snip> ********************************************************************** Contributions: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Commands: majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu Requests: bourdieu-approval-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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