11th December 2008, 11:45 AM
Quote Windbag "On another personal note,i've not much sympathy for the men on this topic who have complained about discrimination against them. It can happen,but it happens to men a lot less than it happens to women,and the stats bear that out. Form a separate men's group if you want to-I won't be joining it"
No offence Windbag but I don't think such a statement is very helpful in the long run,at the end of the day we ALL want to be treated with equal consideration without discrimination to anyone. In one way the idea of a separate group for women is divisive as we should ALL be considerate to everyone else,could not the whole issue be included with one against discrimination of all types?
Quote Underscore "does british archaeology appear to have some problems attracting attracting asian and black students and employees?"
From my own experience i've only seen one non white digging (he was of english/Hong Kong chinese parents) and i've often wondered if it is because apart from the last couple of centuries what impact have non-white people had on the day-to-day history of the last several thousand years in this island-how can they have any affinity for what is essentially white history? does this have some reason for the apparant lack of interest among non-white people? It would be a shame if it does as I like learning about everyones history.
No offence Windbag but I don't think such a statement is very helpful in the long run,at the end of the day we ALL want to be treated with equal consideration without discrimination to anyone. In one way the idea of a separate group for women is divisive as we should ALL be considerate to everyone else,could not the whole issue be included with one against discrimination of all types?
Quote Underscore "does british archaeology appear to have some problems attracting attracting asian and black students and employees?"
From my own experience i've only seen one non white digging (he was of english/Hong Kong chinese parents) and i've often wondered if it is because apart from the last couple of centuries what impact have non-white people had on the day-to-day history of the last several thousand years in this island-how can they have any affinity for what is essentially white history? does this have some reason for the apparant lack of interest among non-white people? It would be a shame if it does as I like learning about everyones history.