This current claim tha "diversity enriches our lives" is a lot of hogspit. Our country is full of diversity. Why can't those who seek it be allowed to, and those who don't feel the need for it, be allowed to congregate with whom they want? It's all a farce. Diversity in its current context forces people to focus on what makes us different. This naturally causes animosity.
Think about this; under president Reagan, while there was still some detractors, he focused on the fact that we are all Americans and we should be proud of that fact. We had the most patriotic non-war period in the last 50 years. What happened to that? It was destroyed by the "imaginary need for diversity". Since this push began we have never been more divided as a country. Everyone is focusing on their own little self-defined group and to Hades with the nation a whole.
In the recent discussions regarding the admissions practices at the University of Michigan, we heard, ad nauseum about how diversity makes the learning experience better. How? Does the fact that a white student is sitting next to a black student make them both learn math better. If so, how? The only place I could see diversity enhancing learning would be in a social studies class. And, we all know that all subjects in college today are predicated on the fact that social construct is the root of all learning. OMG, just writing that makes we want to spit up.
We, as nation, had better get back to the notion that we are one people or the end comes soon.
"E Pluribu Unum" means "One out of many" not "every man for himself".