Martha Minow - Sources of Difference
1. What is the dilemma of difference that Minow talks about? What is the catch 22 that it presents? Can you give an example? How does this dilemma relate to the critiques that Matsuda, Williams and Razackraise?
2. Explain in your own words the five assumptions that Minow describes as underlying the dilemma of difference. What examples does Minow give of each? Can you think of additional examples of these assumptions? Which of these assumptions do you hold?
3. What does it mean to say that we are each equally different from each other? What is the impact of such a statement?
4. What are your unstated norms?
5. What is the effect of these unstated assumptions? Why does it matter that they are unstated?