About the American Diversity Report
從Xenophobe到Xenophile
中國來自瑪麗“安吉拉”摩爾的鏡頭
（3系列的第1部分）(Chinese)
“The lenses of mass media as the sole window to the outside world is detrimental to the way we perceive our fellow Earthlings. Somehow, It can burn bridges more than build them.”
“大眾媒體的鏡頭作為通往外界的唯一窗口，對我們認識地球人的方式是不利的。 不知何故，它可以燃燒橋樑而不是建造它們。“
Continue reading From Xenophobe to Xenophile – by Mary Angela Moore
The Chicago Council of Global Affairs brought 51 mayors & staff to Chicago to develop a flexible mayoral covenant on climate change within North America. The session in which I was a participant was led by the mayors of Chicago, Vancouver,Montreal, Washington and a modest size city of 150,000 in Mexico. NY TIMES writer Thomas Friedman chaired this session.
Allow me now to share some of the important points that arose from the discussion.
Continue reading Climate Change and Global Cities – by the Rev. Dr. John Pawlikowski
Your echoes linger on the edges in the Smoky Mountain fog
In petal red, or blue? The poet’s everywhere-tint
Infiltrates insidiously, glancing, gliding under my skin.
Move on, you whisper, No more time for love.
Love grown out of Tennessee barn oak
Floated on Scottish dry docks,
Love grown out of three-thousand miles of red, white, and blue.
Now we walk past the Cherokee land until we spy
The seagulls’ wings; sail east, then up the River Clyde
To Dunoon, where sailors and war brides married
Where mother met father, and I met you.
But these mountains have been deceiving me for years.
Hurry now! the mantra grows, Move on…move on
Past your foothills ghost, past the shipbuilders’ loch,
On past a struggle’s end.
Red, only in the mountains’ falling leaves
Blue, only in my eyes
And the holy color dying.
Five decades ago, the only consumer that brands cared about was the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs). The reason being that they represented the majority of the consumer market. Some years down the line, a few companies/brands realized that directing marketing material towards the African-American ethnic population has the potential to boom up their business. So, they devised multicultural marketing strategies.
But today, a few more years down the line, shows a different consumer picture. Now, the population of America has become progressively diverse. The mixed-race population and Asian people are the two fastest growing groups in the US. On the other hand, there is a lag of growth in the Non-Hispanic white segment of the US population. From July 2015 to July 2016, Asian and mixed-race population grew by 3% while Non-Hispanic whites grew by just 5,000. Research suggests that by 2040, the minority groups today would combine to attain a majority in the US population. So, the marketing strategies that used to work a few decades back would no longer work in the future. This has led to professionals diversifying their marketing procedures.
Continue reading Diversity Marketing and Communication Today – by Anna Kucirkova
Leelee Jackson and Geoffrey Stone are hardly household names in diversity circles. But in 2019, my interactions with Jackson, a talented young playwright, and Stone, a passionate defender of free speech, helped illuminate the challenging complexities of diversity and expression.
As a fellow of the University of California National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, I have been examining the myriad tensions created when two laudable principles collide: the defense of robust speech and the effort to create greater inclusivity. This intersection has generated considerable controversy, including among diversity advocates.
Continue reading Diversity and Speech Part 4: Navigating the N-Word – by Carlos E. Cortés
Originally published in The Chattanooga Times Free Press
Your may think that the cost overrun for the Fall Creek inn is a state budget issue is just a dollars and cents issue. You’re probably annoyed that you’re paying for the extra $11 million with your tax dollars. Those overruns pushed the replacement cost from $29.4 to $40.4 million and pushed the completion date from 2020 to 2021. Was it an accident that increased the damage? Were mistakes made and now you’re stuck paying the bill to clean up the mess? The answer should get your attention, and keep it.
Continue reading Our Fall Creek Falls Challenge – by Deborah Levine
The Pond in Winter
After Henry David Thoreau
The winter of ’19, it rained nearly every day,
water gushed from sky, no windshield wiper
equal to it. A slough swelled in the low spot
of the yard, lapped the steps, like a wolf
at the door. It was the wolf supermoon that
reflected off the surface one rare, naked night—
quicksilver eerie and lovely as icy solitude,
consoling, clear. A sorrow-voiced owl cried
in the pre-dawn, foreshadowing death,
as owls can. Loss spilled over the wall
of my soul and into the crevices where I hid
my treasures, floated them out of their deep
secret places onto the banks from underearth
where bluets and bloodroots drank to the dregs
as I would after I saw the land open its mouth
and swallow my love whole, leaving me to choke
on the hemlock of grief. I’ll carry the disfigurement
of this flood, a high-water scar the rest of my days.
Not everything, nor everyone survives. Winter
cannot last forever.
SiberiaCyberHaiku
Silently passing through Fargo…
the indiscriminate Fargo of my mind,
I am cruising up the Lena.
I leave the city limits of my head
for what is…now…here…
flowing once before the windows of my eyes.
Morning, she appears,
changeling today, soft and cloudy
where the river flows.
As the clouds thicken
I become confused and ask,
“Will sunlight return?”
Endless flow of green,
sandy shore, then white birch trees,
life without landmarks.
Then houses, a church,
its onion dome an anchor,
faith in solitude.
I peek at a map,
explore the territory,
mind at home again.
Tell me what I am,
where I am, I have forgot
Tell me how, how, how…
Father’s and Mother’s Day are great American traditions, but I’m not sure I like them. Unhappily, I have a really big problem with these days because I don’t have the goods. My mother and grandmother who were such loving figures in my life are gone. My father, who I take after in so many ways, is gone, too. I’m feeling a bit sorry for myself. My children live far away but will no doubt call or send a card. I’m grateful for their love but I would really like to call my own parents. Just knowing they were around made life balanced and feel more secure.
Continue reading Fathers and Mothers Day When They’re Gone – by Deborah Levine
It was painful waking up to the terrorism news that suicide bombers in Sri Lanka had targeted hotels and churches during Easter services. Hundreds of people were killed and hundreds more were injured. At first, officials pointed to the perpetrators as a local group of radical Islamists espousing a terrorist ideology. Then they announced that international connections had helped design the attacks. At this point, Sri Lanka shut down online social networks, a move that would limit conspiracy theories, copy cat attempts, and violent revenge attempts. Was the ban prompted by guilt that warnings had been ignored, or by the experience days before in Paris?Continue reading Call terrorism by its name – by Deborah Levine
