tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post7453673988103177654..comments2024-03-24T03:31:26.115-04:00Comments on Discovering Urbanism: A practical art of sharing spaceDaniel Nairnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14127732825472374125noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5079297043552042968.post-34553936337800965902010-04-06T01:10:26.437-04:002010-04-06T01:10:26.437-04:00Indeed, living multi-culturally is an adaptive art...Indeed, living multi-culturally is an adaptive art. Either you grow up with it, painfully acquire it by rubbing out your comfort zones, or put up with it by necessity. <br /><br />It is hardest to acquire in bifurcated environments, because two poles make the distance between too fraught with easy opposition and demarcation. You typically need a third pole or an outlier ...or, interestingly, an ambiguous political status to bring the strategy of sharing as a social option. To get there you need fair and mutually observed rules and quite a bit of empathy for those with lower status. These strategies are simply innate in us. Many of us acquired them on our knees at the sandbox as children. But first we need the bridge of empathy. <br /><br />You inspired my latest post on the insights Jerusalem taught me on this topic.Eric Orozcohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00320742140050171881noreply@blogger.com