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"How to Cope with Diversity"

This post was written by Penelope Trunk: "All projects run longer than scheduled. So when I planned for remodeling the farmhouse as a two-week project, I figured it would take four weeks. But we are on week eight because we're waiting for tile. And when the farmer and I have an argument, he says, "Go to Home Depot and buy some tile so we can take baths."

It is useless to try to explain to him why Home Depot tile is not innovative design. He doesn't care. He just wants to be clean. I used to think diversity was my best friend marrying a black guy. But the guy graduated from rich-kid private schools and has tenure at UCLA and, at this point, I think diversity is not skin color but rather social upbringing.

I noticed there's a lot of information on how to create diversity, but there's not a lot of information about how to cope with it once you have it. So here are my tips:..."

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Source: Brazen Careerist, 21 June 2010. © 2009 Penelope Trunk, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).