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Originally Posted by UGAalum94
I find a claim that one's particular race or ethnicity contributes experience or wisdom that can be assumed to be superior to that of another person, identified only by race, faulty. It's that claim that a wise woman or a wise Latina would more often than not make better decisions than a white guy, whose experience we apparently are supposed to conclude are uniform and less rich, that I think is crap.
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I don't think that's what she meant by that quote. Taken in context, it's pretty clear to me that she's saying that a latina exposed to and experienced in cultural influences would probably have the insight to make judgment calls on people and situations familiar to her...moreso than someone that was unfamiliar with the culture or people of that culture.
I don't think there's anything wrong with thinking that way. I may have studied black history in one college class, but slavery and the civil rights movement, though moving to me, is still probably more emotional to black people in this country. Men may have cared one way or the other about a woman's right to vote (or choose abortion, to bring it into today), but it was women who took up that fight because it was a bigger deal to them. That's just two (or three) examples of law and policy that have been changed in our country due to discussion from different points of view gained from different experiences.
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