Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h3AEYeU22343; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:34:40 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:34:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <38E53265.0D371022.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:150] Re: from Kay Tee, Suggestions for handling bias X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 2025 Lines: 24 Dear Kay Tee, Sandra, others, This topic is a quagmire. I am speaking about Moslems and Jews. I am speaking as a Jew who used to be a Protestant who also taught, lived, in a Moslem country and reached a love of the east and eastern cooking through Moslem friends and my own experience. I was a Protestant then, my husband was a Jew with a Jewish name. I don't think Moslems cared or maybe knew. I am not traditionally observant but know enough about both religious cultures to recognize a kinship that amounts to cousin-ness, specifically in traditional male/female role assignments, dietary regulations, and a past which is steeped in the desert and tribalism. So. It is not accurate to say what the Jews are doing to the Moslems, if you take that point of view it is the Israeli's who are doing this, and it is to the Palestinians, some of whom are Christian. Many of us are Americans--while our biggest donation of foreign aid is to Israel, the second is to Egypt. Part of my family fled France during the (Protestant) Huguenot persecutions by Catholic France, and I don't get bent out of shape about that persecution anymore--some of this is history and it goes away with time. Of course that was only the 16th century and Balkan memories go back further as we know now. I think you've really got to know history, is one thing I am trying to say, and another is you have to be awfully careful of the language you use. About atrocities--no one is immune, everyone has done it. Check the records, there are a lot. Look at what just happened in Congo this week. Then there are what the Turks did to the Armenians...I was brought up on "Remember the starving Armenians" by my mother. The challenge is to acknowledge that all of us--ALL--are capable of these things, and then to devise ways of creating civil society which incorporates this knowledge along with humankind's better qualities. This it seems to me is the challenge for professional development as it is being framed in this conversation. Andrea
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