Re: MentorNet (one woman's response)

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

As they say "travel broadens the mind."

My experience was quit different.  I was always respected and some Kenyans were too
deferential.

Once it was only after I 'd  finished shopping in a huge outdoor market, when I
realized I was the only "muzungu" among 500 others.

bc

p.s. great response; I must remember it.



John Barrer wrote:

> --- James Mackey <jmackey@HARDING.EDU> wrote in part:
> > So, what shall we do?  A. Shall we require that
> > every new physics hire
> > at University X shall be a woman until the % of
> > women in physics becomes
> > equal to ~50%?
>
> I submit that the "what shall we do" part is premature
> when many folks deny the existence of a problem. At a
> lunchtime discussion last year, one of my colleagues
> was railing against affirmative action for a variety
> of reasons. I posed this question to her: "If you were
> a male fetus and could choose your skin color, what
> would you choose?" She paused a moment and said, "I
> see what you mean". I have been fortunate to have
> lived for several years in a Caribbean island nation
> (as a minority). It was illuminating to experience
> what it feels like to live in a situation (although in
> many ways idyllic) where the rules are made
> exclusively by the majority and you can be jerked
> around at will by "the man". Gives one a different
> perspective. John Barrere
>
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This posting is the position of the writer, not that of SUNY-BSC, NAU or the AAPT.