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...according to opinion polls. But there is also significant opposition - recently some 2,000 people demonstrated in Copenhagen to express outrage at the new laws. "The basic idea is they want to keep ethnic minorities out of Denmark," says Pakistan-born Bashy Quraishy, president of the European Network Against Racism, who has lived in Denmark for 32 years. "They are saying, 'We want Denmark to be white and Christian.' But they have to understand that Denmark has changed. It's a multicultural society now." Seven out of 10 foreigners are Muslims, including 60,000 people of Turkish origin...
...they run the gamut of all social classes. In the West End of London, rich playboys from the gulf states are staples of the clubbing scene. In rundown mill towns in the north of England, by contrast, thousands of native Pakistanis struggle in an environment where jobs are scarce, racism is rampant and arranged marriages are the norm...
...believes that since laws have been put in place to ‘equalize’ things, everyone has equal opportunity.” Indeed, Loury explains that since our country’s laws (as well as its ideals of freedom, democracy and equal opportunity) condemn racism, many Americans see policies that explicitly take race into account as unnecessary, or even as a sort of “reverse racism.” At this point, the popular discourse on race offers two options: do we consider race or do we ignore it completely when creating new policies...
Conservative takes on the latter vary. Some claim that “race-conscious” policies are superfluous because white racism is no longer a significant obstacle to black progress. Others maintain that these programs serve only to intensify the racial divide. Some conservatives argue that the government has no responsibility to consider race because the causes of the racial divide lie within the black community itself: in the innate inferiority of African-Americans (as the infamous 1994 book The Bell Curve suggests) or in the community’s own inadequacy (according to the “black...
...their obsession with the female body. In her performances her body becomes a work of art. “I wanted to be the canvas. I am the experience. You can’t buy me.” Finley uses her body as a weapon against sexism, racism and other forms of oppression. Her work reflects the frustration of those who have been suffocated by a hypocritical moral order. She wants her work to provide a voice for those who have, in her own words, been “fucked over...