In the department of quirky stories, a library in Sweden is allowing «townsfolk to borrow any of nine different minority people.» The idea is to break down barriers and prejudices. (Some libraries in Florida could use this idea.) Among the minority people you can find are:
a lesbian, a gay, an imam, a Muslim woman, a journalist, an animal rights advocate, a Dane, and a Romany or Gypsy and one other to announced later.
September 2nd, 2005 at 10:20 am
Wow. That is so weird. So long as it broadens the horizons of majority whitey—and so long as they don’t use an auction block to process lending—it might be a good idea.