Re:The sinister attempts to ‘decolonise’ mathematics
by Ancapistani on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:31PM
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Culture != race
(to the degree that “race” is a definable thing to begin with…)
I was born and raised in a Southern US state, and moved to the East Coast for a job in my 20s. On my first day I showed up at 7am because I wasn’t given a start time. The next person arrived at 9:20am. I was later told “we start at 9”.
Where I’m from, showing up twenty minutes after the “start time” for a job without excuse or apology would have a decent chance of getting you fired on the spot.
Both places could definitely be described as “white” - and for that matter, it’s even more pronounced now that I’m working mostly for California companies. Working hours are at best a suggestion.
To be fair there’s something to this. My dad told me a story of meeting a Danish person in Bangladesh (where we’re from) who observed that, given my dad’s fastidiousness about punctuality and standing in line “he probably didn’t fit in [there].” I tell my kids we got kicked out of our home country because “your grandpa couldn’t stand people showing up late to everything.”