“So I pose this question-if diversity is so bad,then should we not return to the segregated ways of earlier times?Let whites be with whites,blacks be around only blacks and keep everyone apart.”
Some would come to that mentally-constipated conclusion without a study at all. It’s a good thing you don’t want it.
The true issue with diversity, for me, is that it is used as a wedge to create disunity. By all means, peeople should be able to practice their cultural norms, speak their ancestral languages, observe their cultrual customs and such, and have others at least tolerate them....
BUT...
Since we do not live in a relatively racially homogenous society (like say, Japan), it is necesary to sublimate primary allegiance to those customs and culture to allegiance to a more “sharable” (for lack of a better word at the moment) one in order to achieve relative peace.
Which is the genius of the American Experiment (i.e. the Melting Pot). The problem is that the concept of the Melting Pot has been trashed by generations of irrationally-guilty white scholars and academics, and exploited by racial and cultural hustlers in order to suckle on the teat of self-loathing westerners.
The Melting Pot idea woked great for many groups from Europe and to some degree Asia and Latin America.
Yet blacks were never a part of the Melting Pot ideal.No matter how acceptable they tried to be,they will still considered”colored”and their options limited.Thogh less true today,just try bringing a black friend,particularly one of the opposite sex,to an all white function and see the looks you get.
I can tell you the last thing you notice is a melting pot!