Of course. But there has to be a prevailing culture which everyone becomes part of. When I was a child growing up in Danbury CT, there was a wonderful myriad of cultures and religions. It was practiced in churches, in social gatherings, at cultural/recreation events, in families and neighborhoods. We all enjoyed each other's special events, foods and even church sponsored activities. But when we were together away from those cultural events, everybody worked to live the American dream.
It was that combination...melting pot but respecting individual cultures that worked. If one wants to impose their values, they should stay in their homelands.
This article should be required reading. It's eerily on-target.
I was at a diversity training session at work and the person running the event was going through bullet points about how diversity makes for a strong company and economy.
In fact, I think there’s some truth in that but it’s wildly overstated.
So I asked about a slide earlier in the presentation that showed China and India with rapidly growing economies (this was several years ago). I asked if racial diversity is an essential strength, why were countries with significantly less racial diversity doing so much better than countries with more racial diversity.
The wide eyed, stunned look I got back made it all worthwhile.