Posted by
Puddleglum on Monday, July 24, 2006 11:40:24 AM
Thank you Contender Kevin, Copper Fox, Joel, Matthew and others who weighed in on the charge of racism leveled against my blog likely over a misunderstanding of 'puddleglum'. It is wonderful to know that you friends blog and that even people one has never met can discern meaning and intentionality in printed words in these days of hyper so-called post modernity.
I just came off a conference by
IICS encouraging aspiring university profs and existing university profs to consider teaching cross culturally in the 10-40 window or in closed access countries to both serve developing and other nations and to better make the goodnews known with the implications seen in the life of an educator. It was fabulous but I must say that communication can be quite challenging even in familiar cultures. Again I'm quite pleased that apparently many are getting it.
At the conference I was reminded (not by the speakers but by the contexts) of a quote by a mainland Chinese student studying in the States. He said, "In the USA it is safe to question political leaders and political thought, but it apparently is NOT so safe to question Darwinism. But in China it is NOT safe to question political leaders or political thought but it is very safe, popular and even quite acceptable to question Darwin."
Issues of race, or gender, markets, just war theory, world view, issues of sexuality and power are all contexts where we are told 'angels fear to tread'. Thanks for going there with me graciously.