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Category: Healing Illinois Article Series

Article I – Celebrating Diversity or Celebrating Commonalities

Posted onMay 22, 2022November 26, 2022

Most of us have grown up hearing, teaching, and learning to celebrate diversity.  This now fashionable conventional wisdom grew out of the rebellious 60’s and early 70’s. We rebels, myself Read More …

CategoriesArticles, Healing Illinois Article Series, UncategorizedTagscelebrating commonality, celebrating diversity, healing illinois

Article II Zero-sum or Positive-sum: Group vs. Self-pride  

Posted onMay 21, 2022November 26, 2022

We humans have divided ourselves into groups throughout history and around the world. Good start – we could better raise families, hunt, protect from animals, divide responsibilities, specialize, do big Read More …

CategoriesHealing Illinois Article Series, UncategorizedTagseducaton, group pride, healing illinois, leadership, positive, positive-sum, self pride, sum, zero, zero-sum

Article III Beyond Tourist Approach to Deeper Understanding

Posted onMay 19, 2022November 26, 2022

Ethnic fests may be fun, appetizing, and entertaining. But sharing ethnic foods, music, dance, and costumes breaks few cross-cultural barriers. It creates few jobs, improves few schools, and evaporates few Read More …

CategoriesHealing Illinois Article Series, UncategorizedTagscross culture, cross-cultural, diversity, ethnic

Article IV  Multi-cultural or Cross-cultural Perspectives  

Posted onMay 18, 2022November 26, 2022

A first suggestion is to switch our terminology from multicultural to cross-cultural. The new adjective must go with an action. This action, I call “bridge-building.”  Putting two ethnic groups together, Read More …

CategoriesHealing Illinois Article SeriesTagscross-cultural, education, melting pot, multi-cultural, reform

Article V Small-Picture Dangers, Big-Picture Benefits

Posted onMay 17, 2022November 26, 2022

When we take a big picture rather than focusing on one race, ethnicity, continent, or period of history, we find that deeper down we have common histories. Expanding our everyday Read More …

CategoriesHealing Illinois Article Series, UncategorizedTagsenthicity, history, racism

Article VI How Religious and Hero Holidays Can Bring Us Together

Posted onMay 16, 2022November 26, 2022

Holiday celebration can be unifying or inadvertently divisive. We all celebrate holidays for the same reasons. We celebrate spring, harvest, or heroes, for example. On the other hand, celebrating ethnic Read More …

CategoriesHealing Illinois Article SeriesTagscelebrations, different, ethnic, holiday, outsider, religious, separate

Article VII STEM and Cross-cultural Insensitivity. Alternatives

Posted onMay 16, 2022November 26, 2022

Educators possess prodigious pedagogical tools to teach pure and applied sciences. However, despite our ostensibly best efforts, schools are graduating a mixed bag of good and bad apples. We graduate Read More …

CategoriesHealing Illinois Article SeriesTagsmedia, STEM

Article VIII Do Schools Promote Cross-cultural Insensitivity? Alternatives?

Posted onMay 13, 2022November 26, 2022

Despite our best efforts, including those of us in the progressive 60’s to 70’s, hippies, teachers, preachers, police, and human rights advocate protesters have obviously still a long way to Read More …

CategoriesHealing Illinois Article SeriesTagsclassroom, cross-cultural, sensitivity

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