I also wanted to mention that out of the 16 members of our writing group, five are African American. This doesn’t reflect the demographic situation at our university as we don’t have remotely anything like 30% black faculty. We don’t even have anything close to the population-wide 13%.
This is something I noticed a long time ago, and it’s true for students, too. African Americans will grab at any opportunity and extract value from it, which is wonderful. Hispanic students and colleagues have the opposite strategy. I love them to bits but they just don’t go for the opportunities that are strewn around.
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I was hopelessly Hispanic in this regard when I was younger. I think I’ve changed now, but that might be a comforting delusion
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