{"id":31052,"date":"2013-05-14T01:17:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T01:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31052"},"modified":"2013-05-14T01:17:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T01:17:08","slug":"first-person-weve-made-diversity-our-official-civic-religion-in-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31052","title":{"rendered":"First Person: ‘We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester’"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Person: ‘We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester’<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

This is Leicestershire<\/a>
\nLeicester Mercury
\n2013-03-27<\/p>\n

Ben Ravilious<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was delighted to learn the city mayor has given the green light to Leicester’s City of Culture bid. However, I already have nagging doubts about the direction this might be taking.<\/p>\n

It’s the flogging of the word “diversity” that concerns me. We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester but I think we should place more emphasis on the ways in which we mix to give us the best chance of winning.<\/p>\n

Let’s be clear, my wife is of a different race, religion and nationality to me, we have two mixed-race daughters and my life is far richer as a result.<\/p>\n

I also think it’s essential to continue the battle for equality so everyone in Leicester can all feel equally represented and respected.<\/p>\n

But diversity alone is just a statistic and having diversity doesn’t necessarily mean harmony or cultural significance. It’s what we do with it that counts…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Person: ‘We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester’ This is Leicestershire Leicester Mercury 2013-03-27 Ben Ravilious I was delighted to learn the city mayor has given the green light to Leicester’s City of Culture bid. However, I already have nagging doubts about the direction this might be taking. It’s the flogging of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,10],"tags":[14674,4799,14676,14675],"class_list":["post-31052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-ben-ravilious","tag-leicester","tag-leicester-mercury","tag-this-is-leicestershire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}