http://silromen.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] silromen.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] alexandraerin 2010-03-01 09:27 pm (UTC)

Other calibrations

I know your focus is racism, but the example of professional dress got me thinking - we could probably extend the argument of privilege to types of thinkers, aptitudes, things like that. I've been looking around at the world for a while now and it seems like - specifically in this country - there is a bias towards white-collar nondescript office jobs as being the standard and things like art and performance and writing being looked at askance, as though right-brained people are somehow lesser (or open-minded people are lesser). The kicker of it is, all those left-brained people need those right-brained people terribly, and they don't even know it.

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