An American visits Europe and complains that people there aren’t acting like Americans … But seriously, folks. 1/ mass.streetsblog.org
If you are immersed in US policy, please remember that many things that seem abstractly true to you actually arise from your country’s history and culture. You can’t expect other countries to share them and you sound imperialist when you suggest that they should. 2/
This is especially true of the current US professional practice around equity. Every country has prejudice and disadvantage but there are many ways to think about that and many of them work. Many countries have measurably better equity outcomes than the US. 3/
If the equity profession is going to be credible in calling on us to hear marginalized voices and rejecting oppressive cultural norms, it needs to notice how its own methods and norms are also the product of a certain history and culture. 4/
One of the things I love about consulting internationally is that every country has its own ways of thinking about transport and “equity”. My job is understand why they think that way, and then help them move forward using terms that make sense to them. 5/
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