We’re A Salad, Not A Melting Pot (with Liz Sohyeon Kleinrock and Erika Marquardt)

The Suburban Women Problem

Red Wine & Blue

News, Kids & Family, Politics, Parenting, Government

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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“America is a melting pot” gets said a lot. But that implies that we’re all melting down our differences and becoming the same thing. Instead, we might think of America as a salad: many different cultures, all existing together in the same bowl. Our diversity is our strength, and that’s what we’re celebrating today.Our Troublemaker of the day is Erika Marquardt, a high school student in Ohio who helped plan her school’s diversity event called “Many Cultures, One Bison.” Erika shares why it wa...

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0:00.0	It is about inclusion of everyone, all the ingredients in the salad.
0:13.0	So that we get a better salad.
0:15.0	Yes.
0:16.0	Like, come on.
0:20.0	We got to address the suburban women problem because it's real.
0:25.9	Welcome to the suburban women problem, a podcast from red, wine, and blue.
0:33.9	Hi, everyone. Thanks for joining us. I'm Rachel Vindman.
0:37.2	I'm Jasmine Clark. I'm Amanda Weinstein.
0:39.9	And you're listening to the suburban women problem. Across the country, we've seen lawmakers
0:44.2	silenced, first with the three representatives in Tennessee and now in Montana with representative
0:49.5	Zoe Zephyr. It's like Republicans want to silence anyone who isn't a straight, white,
0:56.0	cisgender Christian. But, you know, diversity of this country is what makes us strong.
1:02.2	So this week I talked to Liz Soyan Klein Rock about her work in anti-bias and DEI education.
1:09.1	Liz also shared some things about the Asian American community as we go into May,
1:13.3	which is Asian American and Pacific Islander Month.
1:16.3	And before Liz, we'll hear from Amanda about her chat with Erica Mark Whart,
1:20.7	a high school student who helped plan a diversity event in her school.
1:24.7	Erica is still in school so she couldn't join us at our normal recording
1:28.1	time, but Amanda met with her on Zoom a few days ago, and I can't wait to hear their conversation.
1:33.6	So let's get into it. Should we start with what happened in Montana? Did they learn nothing from
1:39.2	Tennessee? I mean, I think they're sort of incapable of learning anything. I mean, and I mean that that's accurate. True? Yeah, I mean, I think they're sort of incapable of learning anything. I mean, and I mean that that's accurate.
1:46.6	True. Yeah. I mean, I think they're incapable of learning because it's a performance for a very
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