Free Trade, Social Segregation, Rising Tide, Iceberg

August 20: India Day Party
Cross Cultural Interactions In A Diverse City
The Thing About Racist Comments
Cloud, Pyramid, Glass
Right Wingers In Power In Israel And America
America: Number One
Mumbai Train Blasts
August 16
Barack The Glass Walls, Ceilings, Smash 'Em
Three Pillars, Draft 2
Immigration, Duh
Race, A Few Different Angles

Wealth Creation

There are three ingredients. It is the entrepreneur who spins the wheel and mixes the colors to create the painting. Free trade means more permutations and combinations become possible.

Collective Identities Change Over Time

Each new generation will see it slightly differently. What is the primary collective identity you identify with? That might or might not be true for your children and grandchildren. As political systems mature, the individual becomes the center of the universe. And that is a good thing. Even the collective identity is an individual thing. As people and cultures mix, new identities will emerge from old ones. It is kind of like when you shake up the kaleidoscope. The ingredients are not gone, but they show up in new formats. There is mixing and remixing.

Rising Tide

Put a dollar sign on every forehead on the planet. That is how much that person makes in a year. It is possible to design a political, economic, social infrastructure such that that amount increases on every single forehead moving into the future, more or less. India will get richer, China will get richer, America will get richer.

Racist Comments

Usually when someone makes a racist comment, that is the tip of the iceberg. Beneath the water's surface is the value system from which those racist comments come upto the surface.

Words matter. They are the only things that do. You create social reality with the words you speak. That reality can be created and recreated.

On The Web

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August 20: India Day Party

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New York City Parades - August - JimsDeli NYC Guide
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Matrimonial Celebrations - Independence Day Parade 2003 in USA
Sikhs Protest at India Day Parade - New York Times
JumpTV Asia: India Day Parade NYC - August 20th
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Cross Cultural Interactions In A Diverse City

Usually this particular post would qualify for another of my blogs - Relativity: On Relationships - but I think in a diverse city like New York talk of interpersonal relations might qualify for political gear. And I kind of like the diagram I just drew. See above.

The Collective, The Individual, The Particular
Race, Gender And Relationships
If You Have To
Interracial Connections
Communication Is Key
The Love Teachings Of Kama Sutra
What's Out There

The diagram has been named sss: Social Segregation Shit.

I like to say this city is the Amazon forest. There are as many kinds of human life forms. The tall buildings are trees, humans are nesting.

Press Conference
Man, Women Are Weird
The Crowd
Fishjump
Ying Yang
Osmosis
Two Storey Building
The Icecream Machine, The Movies
Two Points Of Connection
White Flight
Quaint

Because this is a big city, there are a lot of people around. Most people you meet, you meet them for about three minutes, and you never see them again. It is like they left the city. Some of them probably did.

The city is racially charged. I compare race relations to geological formations. A million years from now, the Rockies will look different. But today they are what they are. Similarly people's attitudes look like they stay like rock layers. That is one way to look.

"You are so nice. You must not be from New York City." I think it is about that three minute rule. People are looking for space, probably feeling claustrophobic. And they make their barb comments.

And money talk. What do you do? Where do you live? Those can be curiosities. Or someone trying to x-ray you. How much do you make?

"Only one person between you and me is going to be a millionaire. It is not going to be you. You don't have the looks." (Lamont: The Iraq War Ferment In The Democratic Party, The Thing About Racist Comments, Cloud, Pyramid, Glass)

Funny, but I am rediscovering the Mini Nepal in the city after the April Revolution. Some of these Nepalis are capable of the ugliest anti-black stories and stereotypes. But blacks earned their voting rights half a century ago. These Nepalis have not yet.

April Convention: Creating A Glowing Core

$35 per ticket and 6,000 convention goers gives a budget of over $200,000. What is instead you get 10,000 people to show? Political work can be a money maker. It is called a market solution to a burning political, social problem.

And the idea of Desi fast food. How would you like a $2 lunch?

And getting to ride around the city in my cheap car with the richest Nepali on earth, a guy worth hundreds of millions.

ANA Convention: Reflections

Leila Noor tried to sell me a ticket. (August 16) Must be the hardest ticket she ever sold, if she ends up selling it. I think I might show up just because I cost her so much time. But then the 16th is so far away.

On The Web

Racial segregation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Segregation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Segregation in America
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The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. A Century of Segregation | PBS
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The Cost of Segregation
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African American Odyssey: The Civil Rights Era (Part 1)
[PDF] The Interface Segregation Principle
NetLogo Models Library: Segregation
Racial Residential Segregation Project
Segregation in the United States - MSN Encarta
Visualizing Segregation
Cutler/Glaeser/Vigdor Segregation Data
Photographs of Racial Segregation Signs
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An End to Student Segregation:
An Economist in Paradise » Blog Archive » Segregation
MLB.com - Negro Leagues
Implementation of Segregation
File Segregation: New ID Is a Bad IDea
Department of Political Science, University of Michigan
Cost Segregation Audit Techniques Guide - Table of Contents
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Chemical Segregation
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Racial Residential Segregation Measurement Project
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Handbook of Texas Online:
Jim Crow and Segregation
The Schelling Segregation Demo Home Page
[PDF] Why Segregation Matters: Poverty and Educational Inequality
"No Negroes Allowed": Segregation at the Front in World War I
Segregation and Desegregation Information:
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Early Civil Rights Struggles: Brown v. Board of Education
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Neighborhood Schools, Busing, and the Struggle for Equality - Vol ...
RESIDENTIAL RACIAL SEGREGATION
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Definition of segregation - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Wage Inequality and Segregation by Skill
Cost Segregation Applied
Photographic Evidence of Racial Segregation

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