Death to clich�

I have a Korean colleague at work. He complains to me bitterly that he will always be called Chinese in America. This is how I feel about being repeatedly shelved in some Russian category. Most people know as much about Russia or Russian character as they know about Chinese or Korean culture. Incidentally in Lubavitch despite it�s Russian background this habit is pervasive. Just today a Rabbi who barely knows me tried to explain away something I was saying refereeing to me as a Russian. As I said many times on this blog I am interest in anthropological discourse but I am appalled by the dialogue based on clich�s. Death to clich�s, death to mediocrity, death to categories. Hurray to a relationship based tagging unencumbered by the legacy of the cultural prejudice.