Spaghetti Gazetti: Wolverhampton On The Fringe

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Wolverhampton On The Fringe

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Spaghetti as metaphor for diversity

"... my use of the term spaghetti derives from the infamous motorway inter section at the heart of the West Midlands used as a metaphor for cultural diversity across the region - we are all separate strands of the bigger plate of spaghetti - I've heard other metaphors used for diversity such as the melting pot and the mosaic, but I like the idea of a plate of spaghetti as it retains the individual components, like the ceramic pieces of the mosaic whilst having the feel of fluidity and the intermingling nature of the melting pot.

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