On the way to dropping my son at school this morning we heard an ad for a fast-food restaurant that was boasting “hand-mashed” guacamole.
“That’s sounds kind of gross,” I said.
“Especially if it’s mashed by dirty hands,” my son added.
“Ewww” we both shouted.
Why would the advertiser think that was a desirable trait?  It reminded me of [...]

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 Look at this incredible gem I found on alllooksame.com.
Having weathered trying to denounce a few over the years in real life, not sure how I feel about his enthusiasm for “crazy Jewish conspiracy theories as entertainment,” but the ‘scientific evidence’ in the clip does go beyond the “big nose on ancient mask must be [...]

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After much whining during our trip to see family in Brazil last week, my eight year old son announced that he was behaving badly because “everyone here is being mean to me.”  Knowing that nothing could be further from the truth, I immediately went from being (annoyed) mother to ethnographer:  This was culture shock…a gut reaction [...]

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You know it’s difficult to talk about intercultural and interracial issues when you avoid talking even to yourself, in private, for fear of being offensive.
Certainly I jest, but only sort of.  There’s a couple of things I’ve noticed over the past nearly two weeks, and I have a couple of solutions to start.
1.  There’s something [...]

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 The other night a young man, probably in his late teens, came by our home while I was cooking dinner.  I went to the door with the remnant of a head of lettuce that would soon complete our salad still in my hand.  After introducing himself quickly and starting his spiel, he stopped short to [...]

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I was delighted to see Dawn Turner Trice’s call out in the Tribune on March 23 to start the conversation on race. “Let’s start a discussion. What question would you ask of a person of a different race to get to know him or her better?” I’m thinking this is fantastic, let’s go.
But then she [...]

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