ENGLISH 2M06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1st Reading Response: Neoliberalism, Zadie Smith, Foregone Conclusion
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Based off a talk she did after accepting a literary award, however she is disheartened by the claim against her that multi-culturalism has failed. She talks about her life and her diverse childhood, growing up with muslims, hindus, and jews in her neighbourhood. For zadie, it was(cid:374)"t a(cid:271)out a (cid:373)ulti(cid:272)ultural (cid:374)eigh(cid:271)ourhood a(cid:374)d the prospe(cid:272)t of di(cid:448)ersity (cid:449)orki(cid:374)g, it (cid:449)as just life. She addresses the issue of potential time travel, to go back to a time when it was supposedly better. But she makes the statement that there is no political/personal persona full of innocence. Zadie also talks about her father and how open he was. A white-man who saw through racial (cid:271)arriers a(cid:374)d looked at a perso(cid:374)"s (cid:272)ore as she put it. Zadie pretty much makes the claim in this article that racial homogeneity is not a peace promoter any more than racial heterogeneity is fated to fail.
