Richard Rodriguez Quotes
It is very curious that the United States and Canada both assume that diversity means only race and ethnicity. They never assume it might mean more Nazis, or more Southern Baptists. That's diversity too, you know.
London, Scott. "A View from the Melting Pot: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez." The Sun, no. 260, Aug. 1997.
Adams was the lawyer who defended the British troops of the Boston Massacre. He described the crowd as:
The population was an amalgam of Spaniards, Englishmen and other Europeans, Blacks originally brought over as slaves from Africa, and indigenous people from many different tribes.
He was referring to the historical and traditional American political argument of whether the country should be more or less multicultural. There have, even before the founding of the country, this people who favored not only new people from new cultures and nations, but adopting new and foreign ideas. At the same time, there were those who wanted the American culture to not be corrupted of even changed significantly by large number of new people or those new people reaching positions of influence or power. They also often opposed foreign ideas from certain religions to foreign science; from foreign law to foreign philosophy. This interview was just after the Donald Trump Presidential victory.
Richard Rodriguez is an American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (1982), a narrative about his intellectual development.
