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rationality with more sensitive responses common to womyn. It may be kinder and gentler, but can you build a bridge with it?
Understanding your roots is important, but it can become a dangerous obsession. At Yale, as . elsewhere, ethnic fraternities and sororities make separation a requirement for membership. For example, pledges in the Hispanic fraternity are required to dress alike and talk only to their fellow brothers.
Such groups teach students that racial and ethnic identity cannot coexist with the dominant U.S. culture. Members must choose one or - the other, but they cannot have both. To the multiculturalists, Dr. King’s message seems naive and idealistic.
We actually were much more . comfortable and relaxed about these things in high school. Differences wer appreciated and discussed, but they were not the focal point of student activity. We appreciated diversity, but it was not the focus of our lives; people could identify with their race or choose not to.
At Yale, on the other hand, we are forced to accept separatist identities—and watch out if you don’t 1 want to play their silly little game. *
Instead of marching to “take' back the night,” reading My Tongue • or fasting in a cage for Haitians,' those truly concerned with tolerance. should be fighting for individuals who want to escape the multicultural nightmare.
(Editor's note: Neomi M. Rao, a senior at Yale University, is the, Lawrence Wade jomalism fellow at The Heritage Foundation, a Washington-based public policy research institute.) _ _•
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