More on White Privilege and Cross-Cultural Practices
In order to try to keep the comments on the post below from becoming completely and totally unwieldy, I wanted to put up separately a post from one of the blogs referenced below. It's about white privilege in American Buddhism, and there are a lot of relevant parallels to the issue of white privilege in American acupuncture.
Cross-posting from www.whitepriv.blogspot.com:
https://whitepriv.blogspot.com/2012/04/segregated-sanghas-how-spirituality-is.html
(Note: no implied criticism of Buddhism or Buddhists here. If anyone wants to talk about white privilege in American Christianity or in the Roman Catholic Church, of course we can do that too, all day long. It's just that in this particular blog post, you could take out “American Buddhists” and substitute “American acupuncturists” and it would make perfect, painful sense.)
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