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'Colourblind' ideology. A Form of Racism?

I would like to comment on Dr. Monika Williams' article on Psychology Today 'Colourblind Ideology is a Form of Racism'.

Colorblindness is an approach to race ideology according to which the best way to eliminate racism is to treat everybody equally, regardless of their colour or race as if those differences didn't exist. According to the autor, this approach itself equals to racism.

A handul of inspiration from around the web

There are a lot of a good ideas for a better and more thorough December and New Year. Here's a list of four tips I found around the web:

A thorough Christmas for International Couples: Charity work

In this time of the year, when almost everyone is occupied writing down their presents lists and deciding where and what to spend, some, instead, decide not get but to give.

I think that getting involved with charities, especially in this time of the year, can be a wonderful presents, to ourselves and to the ones we help. Never done anything of the kind?

Christmas Holidays and international couples

No matter what your faith or creed is, the Christmas period is usually seen pretty much anywhere as a family period and as a moment to get together with your beloved ones. As it happens with those family spread across countries, international couples are faced with a dilemma: where to spend the holidays? There's not a flawless method or some magic rule that works always, but there's problably a number a "approaches" that can help you get out of an embarassing situation without hurting anyone.

Picture Courtesy of www.blondetraveler.com

Slavery Footprint: How many slaves work for you?

A website and an app now makes it possible to calculate how many people are being exploited to grant us our life style.

Slavery Footprint takes us through a survey where we are asked a series of questions about our living habits and it makes us understand how we all impact the children and people that everyday are enslavered to make us live confortable.

I went through the survey to discover that I have 60 or so slaves. I tuned my answers and retook the survey and it went a bit better...only 44! Well, dreadful, isn'it?

As a matter of fact we are usually so taken by the hum-drum of our daily lives, that we forget to pay attention to the planet and to the people that allow us to live this way.

I don’t like rhetoric, but we must realize that the impact we have is disastrous. As international couples, we tend to concentrate on travelling as comfortable as possible and therefore purchase the latest and lightest luggage, to get the newest phoning gadgetry with little or no thoughts to the forced laborers that are behind the manifacturing of those gadgets...

As per myself, I am a runner, and was absolutely stunned to realize how big the impact of my running shoes is. It goes without saying that we, runners, usually buy new shoes at least every 600 kms, and then we need new jumpers, hats, socks winter gloves…

The list goes on and on…how many slaves to manufacture my running gear?!

Please, take the time to complete the survey!

 

Video Courtesy of CNN Money