2nd November 2005, 05:52 PM
Hi Y'all.
".. white middle class are the teachers of archaeology in this country and some of them are?. (I whish I?m not job hunting), they think only white middle class should study archaeology?.lets leave it at that".
Nah, lets not.I Totally agree that there is an outrageously small proportion of non-white ethnic groups represented in archaeology, I,ve commented on it for years. there are over 40 people on the course I'm taking, they are all, without exception, white.
Where I start getting a bit chippy is where the "white middle class" is casually blamed for everything.
I am of a white middle class background, what do you want, an apology?
don't hold your breath. I went into archaeology for all the same reasons you did (mainly because I love it,you don't do it for the money right?)and I don't see how my background makes anything I say/do/think any more, or less, valid than anyone elses.
If you really do know of people in the profession who think like that I think you have a duty to expose them,however, please refer to them as bigots and stop lumping them in with a huge chunk of the population.
When the going gets weird...
".. white middle class are the teachers of archaeology in this country and some of them are?. (I whish I?m not job hunting), they think only white middle class should study archaeology?.lets leave it at that".
Nah, lets not.I Totally agree that there is an outrageously small proportion of non-white ethnic groups represented in archaeology, I,ve commented on it for years. there are over 40 people on the course I'm taking, they are all, without exception, white.
Where I start getting a bit chippy is where the "white middle class" is casually blamed for everything.
I am of a white middle class background, what do you want, an apology?
don't hold your breath. I went into archaeology for all the same reasons you did (mainly because I love it,you don't do it for the money right?)and I don't see how my background makes anything I say/do/think any more, or less, valid than anyone elses.
If you really do know of people in the profession who think like that I think you have a duty to expose them,however, please refer to them as bigots and stop lumping them in with a huge chunk of the population.
When the going gets weird...