ObamacareForever
Senator
just a question, would you rather live in place where everyone looked/acted/thought the same or do you prefer a melting pot? and why?
Do You Value Diversity?
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Caroljo
Senator
I don't know why anyone would want to live among others that are all the same! That would be boring as hell! What do you learn, or gain, by constantly being around people that always agree with each other? That's why I'm here....we have some extremely different personalities, right and left. It makes for great entertainment....and some pretty crazy discussions. I love it! 
RickWA
The Pissant Snagglesooth
I value diversity of thought and culture. I'm entirely neutral toward 'cosmetic' diversities such as race or skin color. Those things matter about as much as height.
The Melting Pot. That's a phrase I heard a lot as I was being "indoctrinated" into the concepts of US exceptionalism and the greater ideal of equality. But the stew was pretty bland in my young years, the main cultural life being the White Anglo Saxon Christian culture. Baseball, apple pie and Chevrolet. TV Dinners. Walter Cronkite. The blacks I knew only altered one aspect of that cultural world and that's just a surface difference.
I had a few trips into DC as a kid, and it was far more cosmopolitan than the Baltimore suburbs. I liked that. As I hit the later formative years, I was drawn to the culture of San Francisco, especially the music. I didn't yet understand the tremendous diversity of The City's demographics.
I moved to SF and that diversity became a massive part of my life there. NEW FOOD! Tremendous blending of culture in the neighborhoods, as North Beach eased seamlessly into Chinatown, the chaotic and wonderful intersection of Columbus and Broadway being the center of that particular orchestration of life. On the other side of town, The Mission morphed into Noe Valley which morphed into The Castro.
I grew accustomed to hearing multiple languages on the MUNI and having a wide selection of cuisines available, just a short walk away. I later drove Taxi and the march of humanity was as diverse as imaginable, from millionaires heading to the ball, to feces covered vets suffering from traumatic stress and physical woes...from actors and butlers to royalty...to transvestite prostitutes working the mean streets of the tenderloin.
San Francisco WAS the melting pot spoken of...and in that way, I consider it the most "American" city in the nation.
Yes...to diversity, in all forms.
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connieb
Senator
No where will ever have people that all look and act the same. But, I do think homogeneity of culture is important for peace and prosperity in your own immediate community. I think that is why when immigrants came, they collected together. Italian neighborhoods, German neighborhoods, Jewish Neighborhoods, etc. I think that you can still come together on big issues and you can still learn and interact respectfully, but I think from a day to day living standpoint, its certainly easier to simply get along with and deal with people who think and act like you and thus it promotes an allegiance to the neighborhood and to the community that you don't get when the community is so diverse that there is little to no connection other than you happen to share space. I think that a true investment in the community only comes when one feels like they belong, and it is simply human nature to feel like you belong with people who think and act culturally similar to you. I think that "forced" or intentional diversity -i.e. not allowing people to form their own communities as they choose, fosters negative emotions rather than positive ones,and leads to less positive interaction not more.
People from all cultures have done business together and traded long before there were formal gov'ts as we know it today. So, there is nothing stopping one from learning from others and accepting of others, and doing business with others. But, when it comes to promoting peace and prosperity within the immediate community, I think that is done largely on homogeneity of culture and values. So while diversity is fun and intersting and we should always look for ways to learn from others - it is not important at all - from the stand point of something that should be encouraged inorganically. Whatever diversity naturally occurs, will naturally occur. There is nothing inherrently good about it, that it needs to be encouraged through policy.
connie
D
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Guest
Yes, I value diversity in thought and culture. If only we could get the liberals running our universities on board.
Oh, height matters.
Much more than skin color.
I prefer a melting pot. A melting pot is where everyone shares culture of a nation but, on the side, keeps some of his own heritage. A melting pot is NOT where people hang on tightly to their heritage and refuse to melt into the pot in any way and bully everyone else into adopting their heritage.
When people come to the USA, bringing their own heritage and culture adds to the richness of America. But if they come demanding that we change our heritage to accommodate them and they never assimilate at all..............that is NOT a melting pot and it is not a good thing.
Constitutional Sheepdog
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Diversity creates annomosity I want like mined people around me seems things are accomplished when that happens.
resident_evil
Senator
I don't value existential threats as diversity. Fascists, Nazis, Communists, and very many socialists are just that and I don't appreciate them one bit as the two latter have become outsized by hook and by crook.
So beyond that what makes you think people don't enjoy diversity? Everybody does that is anybody. :0)
Constitutional Sheepdog
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Is there diversity in countries that are run by Moslems?
Simple Definition of diversity
Simple Definition of diversity
- : the quality or state of having many different forms, types, ideas, etc.
- : the state of having people who are different races or who have different cultures in a group or organization
freyasman
Senator
My tribe is diversity..... we are every color, half a dozen different ethnicities, we have a couple same-sex couples, several different religions and a couple atheists, different politics, etc., etc. But we all share a core set of common values and we all work very hard to make our tribe work; it isn't easy. If we didn't share a set of common core beliefs in things like work-ethic, integrity, loyalty, and family before all, we would have murdered each other years ago.
Barbella
Senator
Same here, frey. "Tribe" including not only immediate family, but just... you know... MY PEOPLE, related by blood or not. Same with you, I'm sure
reason10
Governor
Those who buy into the "diversity" scam are INSULTED by the term "melting pot."
Humans are diverse individuals. Liberals want to put them all into nice neat little victims groups and pit them against one another. Saying all whites look and think alike, all blacks look and think alike, all Latinos look and think alike is basically an index of the liberal playbook.
And it's TOTALLY anti-American.
reason10
Governor
I don't know why anyone would want to live among others that are all the same! That would be boring as hell! What do you learn, or gain, by constantly being around people that always agree with each other? That's why I'm here....we have some extremely different personalities, right and left. It makes for great entertainment....and some pretty crazy discussions. I love it!
There is no such place on the earth. No two human beings are the same. No two humans think the same or look the same.
LanceFreeman
Mayor
The forced mixing of races, nationalities, and religions on any society is highly destructive. The more homogeneous a society is, the more likely it is to advance and prosper. Our leaders know this (they are not stupid), but they are so obligated to the Luciferian (One World) Zionists, they dare not oppose their wishes, for fear of what these ruthless Jews will do to them. They know that their careers and/or lives could be forfeit if they resist. They are all under the thumb of this hidden tyranny, a situation not unlike the Goa'uld-subject people relationship portrayed in the TV series 'StarGate SG-1'.
Click here: Who wants to destroy every NATION and keep their community safe? - YouTube
The Zionists have found a neat way to bypass our immigration laws, and fulfill their plan for the destruction of America by flooding our cities with every kind of undesirable. They are able to do this because our politicians in Washington are frozen in place. And the illegal aliens who cross our border from Mexico know all about it. That is why they continue to flood our borders by the thousands daily.
They know that even if they get arrested, they can still enter the U.S. illegally. Now, you are scratching your head and asking 'How'? Well---after they are arrested, they are given a 'notice to appear' at the nearest court house for a hearing to begin the procedure to repatriate them back to Mexico, or Guatemala, or wherever. And then they are released. That's right, folks--they are released. Not surprising, few arrestees show up for the hearing. Instead, they disappear into the American underground, and nobody even makes an effort to find them. They're in. This happens everyday. And now you understand why illegals from Central America are everywhere you look, in every city and town, unemployed, and looking for targets of opportunity. And you wonder where they all came from.
[Btw, do you ever wonder where all these people all came from that roam our streets, shuffling about aimlessly, like strangers in a strange land? Do you ever ask yourself how these unlikely people got here?]
The screwing of America takes many forms, dear citizens---from the greatest financial scam in world history (the Jewish Federal Reserve), to the illegal immigration scam (using point man, Barack Obama), to the Holocaust scam (which has bled us of billions of dollars we could have used for our own people), to trillions of dollars in phony Wall Street 'bailouts', and it all traces back to our Jewish friends (frauds) from Zion. Americans need to wake up from their drugged sleep and take a good look at what is happening to their country--before it disintegrates completely.
Everybody on PJ, with few exceptions, dances around the problem, and pretends it does not exist. La-La Land. Small wonder nothing gets resolved in this country, and it continues to sink like a stone.
Click here: American "Exceptionalism" is Jewish Narcissism* - henrymakow.com
Click here: Who wants to destroy every NATION and keep their community safe? - YouTube
The Zionists have found a neat way to bypass our immigration laws, and fulfill their plan for the destruction of America by flooding our cities with every kind of undesirable. They are able to do this because our politicians in Washington are frozen in place. And the illegal aliens who cross our border from Mexico know all about it. That is why they continue to flood our borders by the thousands daily.
They know that even if they get arrested, they can still enter the U.S. illegally. Now, you are scratching your head and asking 'How'? Well---after they are arrested, they are given a 'notice to appear' at the nearest court house for a hearing to begin the procedure to repatriate them back to Mexico, or Guatemala, or wherever. And then they are released. That's right, folks--they are released. Not surprising, few arrestees show up for the hearing. Instead, they disappear into the American underground, and nobody even makes an effort to find them. They're in. This happens everyday. And now you understand why illegals from Central America are everywhere you look, in every city and town, unemployed, and looking for targets of opportunity. And you wonder where they all came from.
[Btw, do you ever wonder where all these people all came from that roam our streets, shuffling about aimlessly, like strangers in a strange land? Do you ever ask yourself how these unlikely people got here?]
The screwing of America takes many forms, dear citizens---from the greatest financial scam in world history (the Jewish Federal Reserve), to the illegal immigration scam (using point man, Barack Obama), to the Holocaust scam (which has bled us of billions of dollars we could have used for our own people), to trillions of dollars in phony Wall Street 'bailouts', and it all traces back to our Jewish friends (frauds) from Zion. Americans need to wake up from their drugged sleep and take a good look at what is happening to their country--before it disintegrates completely.
Everybody on PJ, with few exceptions, dances around the problem, and pretends it does not exist. La-La Land. Small wonder nothing gets resolved in this country, and it continues to sink like a stone.
Click here: American "Exceptionalism" is Jewish Narcissism* - henrymakow.com
LanceFreeman
Mayor
Americans are unbelievably naive. They should turn their attention to what is happening in Sweden, and take a lesson from the Swedish experience. It is the same people running the show--on both sides of the Atlantic:
Click here: “Sweden is Set to Burst” | Gates of Vienna
Click here: “Sweden is Set to Burst” | Gates of Vienna
