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Re: Thinking about "diversity"
Keith Martin 2009-Feb-27 21:13:00
>But what people can do with diversity ?
It isn't inherent in the market, museum, zoo, library and so on, as you say.
But it could be found IN those places. For example, in the people you
see in a market, if there's a good social spread. Or in a museum
perhaps, with school kids dragged in along side more typical 'museum
going' folk. Same with a library; in these cases the most likely
diversity scenario would be to do with who was there are the time.
It doesn't have to be people of course; how about a store that stocks
foodstuffs from different parts of the world?
Today I walked down Margaret Street, a couple of blocks north of
Oxford Street in central London. I passed the St Margaret's church on
my left, a rather beautiful and very traditional old church nestled
snugly between office buildings, while on the other side of the road
a few dozen yards down there was a 'Jesus centre' and across from an
alleyway from that the London Fo Guang temple. That in itself would
be another example of diversity, of the religious kind. Shame the
Hare Krishna procession that I passed three minutes before didn't go
down that road! But then again, I didn't have my kit with me so I'd
just be feeling frustrated now at missing it if they had. And it is
too early for the event. :-)
k