In a way, you’ve got to respect this guy. Although he couldn’t see what was in front of him unless he saw it through his research, he didn’t shade or flush the results.
Hail Diversity!
I think it’s a bit more complicated than that. There was a book that came out, long time ago, that layed out all the various nations located within America, using the standard of nation as applies to the rest of the world. As it turned out, I think it ended up being that there were 10 nations located within America.
Most thinking people, (most of those are freepers), can see the sham of multiculturalism and diversity. When I was going to grade school, there were 2 German girls in my grade. They were strongly, very strongly encouraged to assimilate. Our human nature is very evident in kids, they haven’t learned to hide true feelings, like adults do.
When the German girls would get together, and speak German, the rest of us felt left out, and put off by their “secret code”.
If we assimilate, we all share common reference points. This makes us stronger, because then, your neighbor is also someone who is an identifiable countryman. Diversity results in a collection of unconnected individuals. Perserve your culture, practice what you wish at home, but be an American first.
We’re constantly told, “Celebrate diversity!” You don’t have to nag people to celebrate something that is good. People just naturally celebrate it.
Birds of a feather . . . . That said, it is only natural and instinctive to draw closer to those with whom you have shared interests. Race will be a factor in those interests but maybe not the dominant one. If I go to a church camp and our shared interests are a closer relationship with our Creator, race would have little impact if any with the interaction. If I am in a poor neighborhood where violence is prone to happen it would be a little more in my thoughts unless I had made friends with the different ethnic groups and even then mob mentality may overrule what friendships were formed. Crowded cities are a poor melting pot.
If you want to call a preference for your own kind “racism”, fine. The fact is, all these idiot intellectuals ignore what makes (made?) America great; the unifying factor, the “own kind” above all the ethnicities and races: being an American. The notion that one “loses” culture by assimilating is nonsense.
The liberals turned off the stove and the “melting pot” is full of oil and water instead of a nice tasty stew.
So how did the "melting pot" concept come to be? That was real and historically unquestioned.
What is the essential factor missing from this summary? Perhaps there are two factors. Or three.
Where does being "in the shadows" factor into the whole enterprise? How about the nature of the "move" of cultures? How about the vetting for suitability before being allowed to emmigrate?
How about a willingness to assimilate? The conscious effort to not only move but to embrace the culture which is the destination, for whatever reason?
Legal status may be a factor. You think?
Meeting some minimum standard, or any standard at all before being allowed to join might be another.
I suspect that somewhere in the world there are a few people that don’t discriminate or have predjudices but I haven’t met them. Diversity is nothing more than camoflaged hypocrisy.
Time to start up the National Social Diversity Action Party or NSDAP for short — oop wait bad idea.
Diversity is good when your in the food court at the mall.
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One is diversity within a culture, which is good. That is what the “melting pot” is all about. Americans are the most natural at this kind of diversity. Like the Borg from Star Trek, when we encounter a new culture, we absorb the parts that are good and reject the parts we already excel in. For example, keeping regular schedules (like the Brits and Germans) while eating a wide variety of foods (like most Italians and southern French).
The second kind of diversity, and the one the liberal media and academic world has been push for 40 years, is diversity of cultures. They try to turn the “melting pot” into the stew, where everyone keeps their own identity. That is a failure and has become known as “Balkanization”. It will never work because as long as you identify with a group that is outside the main culture, you will always be (Surprise!) an outsider.
In a country where a man named Schneider goes to a Thai restuarant and is served food cooked by a Mexican immigrant by a girl whose last name is McAllen, you can't tell me that we aren't diverse enough.
and grass is green . . . the sky is blue . . .
Disagree - “diversity” is good; multiculturalism blows.