Subject: Re: young birders/female birders
Date: Jan 5 12:23:33 1995
From: Dennis Paulson - dpaulson at ups.edu
>X-Sender: whimbrel at homer13.u.washington.edu
>Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:33:59 -0800 (PST)
>From: Michael Smith <whimbrel at u.washington.edu>
>To: Dennis Paulson <dpaulson at ups.edu>
>Subject: Re: young birders/female birders
>In-Reply-To: <9501042330.AA17549 at mx4.u.washington.edu>
>Message-Id:
><Pine.A32.3.91c.950104163137.14058B-100000 at homer13.u.washington.edu>
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
>
>Oh, I was going to mention something else someone brought up. How about
>non-anglo birders? I think I can recall seeing less than 10 black
>birders in my whole life, and a similar number of asians, and no chicanos
>(despite growing up in Texas). What is it about birding that makes it
>appeal to only white anglo-saxons?
>
>____________________________
>Mike Smith
>Univ. of Washington, Seattle
>whimbrel at u.washington.edu
>
>
Dennis Paulson phone: (206) 756-3798
Slater Museum of Natural History fax: (206) 756-3352
University of Puget Sound e-mail: dpaulson at ups.edu
Tacoma, WA 98416