Comments on: Countering Prejudice Through Religious Practice http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/countering-prejudice-through-religious-practice Religion and spirituality from a Unitarian Universalist perspective Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:43:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Shelby Meyerhoff http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/countering-prejudice-through-religious-practice#comment-7371 Shelby Meyerhoff Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:25:07 +0000 http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/countering-prejudice-through-religious-practice#comment-7371 Hi Karbeth, New York City may well be lower in racial prejudice than other parts of the country. I'm hesitant to say that the whole East Coast is uniformly less prejudiced; Boston has an ugly history of racism that continues into the present. The point you made about places with "majority thinkers" potentially turning off people from living there makes me think of the Creative Class (by Richard Florida), which I started reading a few weeks ago. I haven't gotten too far in yet, but his general argument is that "creative" professionals are choosing to live in cities that support diversity, and companies that need such professionals will follow them to these cities. Hi Karbeth,

New York City may well be lower in racial prejudice than other parts of the country. I’m hesitant to say that the whole East Coast is uniformly less prejudiced; Boston has an ugly history of racism that continues into the present.

The point you made about places with “majority thinkers” potentially turning off people from living there makes me think of the Creative Class (by Richard Florida), which I started reading a few weeks ago. I haven’t gotten too far in yet, but his general argument is that “creative” professionals are choosing to live in cities that support diversity, and companies that need such professionals will follow them to these cities.

]]> By: Karbeth http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/countering-prejudice-through-religious-practice#comment-7341 Karbeth Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:09:38 +0000 http://www.lookingforfaith.org/blog/2007/countering-prejudice-through-religious-practice#comment-7341 Thank you for bringing Rev. Wooden's post to the attention of your readers. Fascinating. I do see change, a reduction of such thinking, at least on the East Coast and certainly in NYC (more about race than religion). But I can also see how that might elude certain areas between the coasts, where the majority is very set in their thinking and used to being the majority. Perhaps self-perpetuating in that minorities would be less willing to live among "majority thinkers." Thank you for bringing Rev. Wooden’s post to the attention of your readers. Fascinating. I do see change, a reduction of such thinking, at least on the East Coast and certainly in NYC (more about race than religion). But I can also see how that might elude certain areas between the coasts, where the majority is very set in their thinking and used to being the majority. Perhaps self-perpetuating in that minorities would be less willing to live among “majority thinkers.”

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