www.clydefitchreport.com: Historically, diversity is something America fights, or accepts begrudgingly with remorse and reservations, or fights anew when it challenges economic dominance. In a country born of the original sin of slavery — to keep labor cheap; to ensure high profits for the richest one percent (sound familiar?) — this shouldn’t be surprising. What is surprising is how we keep being surprised.
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As long as there continues to be any differences between humans, there will always be problems between them, that’s pretty inevitable. On the point of “Whiteism,” the United States of America is comprised of a lot of different races and cultures, but the majority of its population is white. About 70% percent of it. As an Asian American adopted from China, of course I would love to see more diversity or representation here. But I’m also aware that because the percentage of Whites to People of Color is so different, that there will be a lot more White people represented than Asian or Black, etc. Even still, I think that it is possible to become more tolerant of others around us and the different cultures here. We just need to stop pushing people into groups because that’ll only continue to enforce the “us vs. them” ideology.
Speaking from experience as an African American woman, I can say I will never escape “Whitism”. Even though I haven’t experienced any discrimination in my design and production class, but through conversations in the studio, it is obvious some people haven’t really been exposed to different types of ethnicities. It’s a hard thing to go through sometimes as the only black student in my class, but I thankfully haven’t met face-to-face with any hateful racist comments like I have in real life. As Ari said in her comment, as long as there are physical differences, there people will always be racist individuals. But there has been a very big social change; more diverse casting, more people are dating outside of their race, and there’s more representation in entertainment for youth minorities. While obviously it will never be perfect, I am happy with the progression that is happening everywhere, including the School of Drama itself.
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