Thursday is Staff Diversity Appreciation Day

[KiltedHuntsman]

I've got a "Diversity Day" coming in work in June. They've been asking me to wear my Kilt, but I've declined. I don't really want to be an exhibit. Strikes me as a sort of school show and tell thingy.

I usually wear western wear to the office, and they asked me to be part of the "Diversity Fashion Show" last year, which included Asian, Native American and others. I declined for the same reason. It would have gone over real good. "Hello, I'm a cowboy. At one time or another, I've oppressed all these other people..."

[chasem]

..."Hello, I'm a cowboy. At one time or another, I've oppressed all these other people..."

for some reason that struck me as purely hilarious (not the oppression, but the image that brings)

[Yaish]

It would have gone over real good. "Hello, I'm a cowboy. At one time or another, I've oppressed all these other people..."

That kind of thinking has always bothered me. Have YOU done so? If not, who cares? If we want to look back into history to find problems there is no race that needs to look any further than their own to find examples of where they were as bad or worse than anything that happened to them from someone else.

[macwilkin]

That kind of thinking has always bothered me. Have YOU done so? If not, who cares? If we want to look back into history to find problems there is no race that needs to look any further than their own to find examples of where they were as bad or worse than anything that happened to them from someone else.

As someone who makes their living in historical/informational trades, I have to agree with Yaish's last post 100%. We shouldn't judge people in the past by our modern standards, because we cannot totally experience what they went through.

Cheers,

Todd

[beerbecue]

As someone who makes their living in historical/informational trades, I have to agree with Yaish's last post 100%. We shouldn't judge people in the past by our modern standards, because we cannot totally experience what they went through.

I don't think we should judge people in the present based on what happened in the past, either.......

[macwilkin]

I don't think we should judge people in the present based on what happened in the past, either.......

Exactly. Should we recognise wrongs? You bet. But a historian should at least attempt to be objective and non-biased when writing history, although the realist in me knows that the very nature of humanity is not perfect.

T.

[Alan H]

If we judge each individual person on the basis of what their ancestors and relatives did, then I'm in serious trouble. You all REALLY don't want to be associating with me.

[beerbecue]

If we judge each individual person on the basis of what their ancestors and relatives did, then I'm in serious trouble. You all REALLY don't want to be associating with me.

My family wandered from Scotland/Ireland to Illinois on one side, and from Ireland/Scotland/Germany to Tennessee then Missouri then to Illinois on the other....

Amongst the Confederates, outlaws and what-not in my ancestry, I sure hope that I am not just the product of my ancestors.......

And Todd, I agree 100%......

[binx]

I've got a "Diversity Day" coming in work in June. They've been asking me to wear my Kilt, but I've declined. I don't really want to be an exhibit. Strikes me as a sort of school show and tell thingy.

I usually wear western wear to the office, and they asked me to be part of the "Diversity Fashion Show" last year, which included Asian, Native American and others. I declined for the same reason. It would have gone over real good. "Hello, I'm a cowboy. At one time or another, I've oppressed all these other people..."

GOOD GRIEF...why pass up any chance to wear the kilt at work???? Each time I wear one at work all know I'm representing my heritage. Be proud of it.

binx