Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:38:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Maldoror <insektus-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: of racism and multiculturalism (part 2)



to further my argument, multiculturalism uses as its
language the same language that colonial powers use to
dominate the colonized, which is that people are
different. it places people into these neat little
compartments like so many boxes on the shelves of
wal-mart and when the customer (student) checks out
with his box the cashier (academia) hand him the
receipt (diploma) with the his specialty printed on
it.

people are not studied as what they are- people. they
are studied rather as distinctly unique subjects. and
weren't the indians 'different' from the british which
is how the british gov't got it's population to say
that it was okay to dominate the people of the
subcontinent, and the french with tunisia, algeria and
morrocco. the native americans were 'different' from
the settlers and this justified genocide. the jews and
gypsies were 'different' from the nazis, etc., etc.

with all of these world studies and multiculturalist
studies it just reinforces this illusory difference of
people and place illusory borders between them. from
space do we see borders on earth as we do on the maps?
no. yet here on the planet the borders are as real as
people believe them to be, and unfortunately for all
of the well-meaning academia seems to preach they
can't get past the colonial language of difference and
hence difference is reinforced rather than dispelled
which would reveal the fact of the matter that people
are people, not races. 

gr3g

===="ultimately the governors, the rulers, can only rule if they control opinion..." -noam chomsky

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