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To: ManyMoose who wrote (150072)	12/7/2005 3:18:28 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793963

It sounds like you and I are on the same page, but perhaps I didn't state my case very well. I'm for cultural richness, against multiculturalism. Especially forced multiculturalism. We are on the same page. I just think you are over-reacting to a government office, diversity-tempered, Christmas party. Non-Christian events had no such multi-cultural flavor You were trying to compare it to other holidays but there's no comparison. Christmas is the only religiously oriented holiday that is also a national holiday. So it stands to reason that no other religion's holidays get government employees parties. If Ramadan were a national holiday and the office had a party, you'd can be sure that a variety of symbols would be there, particularly if that holiday coincided with some big Christian holiday such as Easter. We'd be breaking the Ramadan fast with Easter eggs. You are comparing apples with oranges. Having a menorah at a government employee Christmas party isn't even close to multicultural isolation. It's just another charming ornament on the tree and a courteous gesture to the people of that tradition. Re Clinton and diversity, much of that came about from the Workforce 2000 movement. Workforce 2000 made the point that, in the new millennium, the workforce would no longer be predominantly white and that personnel directors and managers had better start thinking about how to deal with that. Recognizing minority holidays was one of the things that came out of that. It may have been silly or misguided but it wasn't part of some multi-culti civil war. Some of the more strident identity group leaders may have tried to turn it into that and may have set off the vast right-wing outrage machine but it was really about trying to engineer jobs and recruiting practices to work with the coming onslaught of Hispanic women etc. in the workforce.