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Continued from My Mexican Trip, Part 2: The Zócalo , Metropolitan Cathedral and Segrario Metropolitana.
After a very busy morning seeing Teotihuacán and the Zócalo followed by a much-needed lunch, we headed off to the National Museum of Archeology. It is in Chapultepec Park between Paseo de la Reforma and Mahatma Gandhi Street. Mention of that name caught my attention. We got off the bus and made our way to the museum entrance.
We passed the gigantic Monolith of Tlaloc, the Aztec Rain God. In Nahuatl (the language spoken by the Aztecs and other natives of Central America), it means: “He who makes things sprout”, a fitting description of the God of rain. It was brought here from Coatlinchen where it was unearthed, on a specially designed tractor-trailer that traveled very, very slowly over the distance of 29 miles carrying the 168-ton, 25 feet high stone statue. We were told that on the day the monolith arrived at that very spot, the skies opened up with a spectacular thunderstorm during an especially dry, winter season. it poured for days. Some thought it was a supernatural event—The Rain God’s blessings raining down! Others interpreted the storm as Tlaloc expressing anger at being moved. Who knows! It is hard to divine ‘Divine Intentions’
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Keynote Address at the National Conference of the
Society for Intercultural Education, Training, and Research
San Diego October 19, 2017
Let me begin by telling you a story. Well, I’m a historian, so I’ll be telling you lots of stories today.
The story begins in 1991 when Lee Knefelkamp invited me to be a panelist at the opening plenary session of the American Association for Higher Education national conference. I decided to attend some pre-conference workshops. One was particularly interesting, so afterwards I introduced myself to the two presenters, Janet and Milton Bennett. I had never heard of them. Turns out, they had never heard of me, either, but they politely reciprocated by attending my plenary.
I hate to be mushy, but it was sort of love at first sight. They invited me to teach at the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication and suddenly, like Alice, I found myself in a brand new Wonderland — intercultural communication. Brand new, that is, to me.
You see, I had been a history professor since 1968, had been giving talks and workshops on diversity and multicultural education for two decades, and thought I had a pretty good fix on the diversity landscape. Yet, somehow, I had managed to avoid learning that a field named Intercultural Communi