The Trouble with Diversity: Racial, Ethnic and Cultural Identity
The study of diversity is widely exploited in political circuits in United States of America. Engaged from the presidential and ministerial speeches, it fits into their arguments without assessing the distortions that such a sequence suppose. Diversity is not a paradigm of equality. On this point, Walter Benn Michaels’s in his essay “The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality” allows to grasp some dimensions because "when it replaced the struggle for equality, the commitment diversity has weakened the political levees that contained the liberal thrust "(Michaels 2). In fact, despite the speech to deliberate accents claiming to provide visibility …show more content…
In other words, it starts to be clear with his usage of the first person narrative, “The argument, in its simplest form, will be that we love race—we love identity—because we don’t love class.”(Michaels). As Michaels designates the majority of society is extremely under the poverty line and when debating financial inequality only those who are suffering the most will closely pay attention. Unlike the first class, the higher class will also be able to figure out because as he emphasizes, “Survey after Survey has shown, Americans are very reluctant to identify themselves as belonging to the lower class and even more reluctant to identify themselves as belonging to the upper class.”(Gans 2). The over determination of diversity comes as a response of governments in search of a control socket of the public response to social protests and criticisms specifically pointing places economic injustices, anchors financial inequality, skids corporate earnings and the decline in purchasing power (Kahlenberg 63). Consequently, as a society, we would rather associate ourselves as being middle class. In this way, no matter what the race, we are alike. For Michaels, "two things contribute to the attractiveness of the concept of culture to replace the race. The first is that culture is learned rather than inherited is (...). The second is the culture is softer than the concept of race. "(Michaels 26). This proposal, particularly reducing the problems that have traveled the history of colonization and migration as well as those who have crossed the seizure of minority concepts and indigenous people in public spaces, shows how the rulers remain attentive to the maintenance of their power
The study of diversity is widely exploited in political circuits in United States of America. Engaged from the presidential and ministerial speeches, it fits into their arguments without assessing the distortions that such a sequence suppose. Diversity is not a paradigm of equality. On this point, Walter Benn Michaels’s in his essay “The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality” allows to grasp some dimensions because "when it replaced the struggle for equality, the commitment diversity has weakened the political levees that contained the liberal thrust "(Michaels 2). In fact, despite the speech to deliberate accents claiming to provide visibility …show more content…
In other words, it starts to be clear with his usage of the first person narrative, “The argument, in its simplest form, will be that we love race—we love identity—because we don’t love class.”(Michaels). As Michaels designates the majority of society is extremely under the poverty line and when debating financial inequality only those who are suffering the most will closely pay attention. Unlike the first class, the higher class will also be able to figure out because as he emphasizes, “Survey after Survey has shown, Americans are very reluctant to identify themselves as belonging to the lower class and even more reluctant to identify themselves as belonging to the upper class.”(Gans 2). The over determination of diversity comes as a response of governments in search of a control socket of the public response to social protests and criticisms specifically pointing places economic injustices, anchors financial inequality, skids corporate earnings and the decline in purchasing power (Kahlenberg 63). Consequently, as a society, we would rather associate ourselves as being middle class. In this way, no matter what the race, we are alike. For Michaels, "two things contribute to the attractiveness of the concept of culture to replace the race. The first is that culture is learned rather than inherited is (...). The second is the culture is softer than the concept of race. "(Michaels 26). This proposal, particularly reducing the problems that have traveled the history of colonization and migration as well as those who have crossed the seizure of minority concepts and indigenous people in public spaces, shows how the rulers remain attentive to the maintenance of their power