Posted on 01/18/2018 12:57:23 AM PST by Altura Ct.
Sen. Lindsey Graham says he scolded the president for saying something scatological about certain countries and their immigrants. “Diversity has always been our strength,” he allegedly said. By my count, this makes Graham the bazillionth person to proclaim some variant of “diversity is strength.”
Is it true? I think the only close to right answer is, “it depends.” Specifically, it depends on what — often clichéd — analogy you have in mind. Diverse stock portfolios are more resilient. Diverse diets are healthier. But that doesn’t mean picking bad stocks will make you richer or that eating spoiled foods is good for you.
I once heard Jesse Jackson explain that racial integration of the NBA made it stronger and better. He was right. But would gender integration of the NBA have the same effect? Would diversifying professional basketball by height? Probably not.
All of these analogies can take you only so far. Thomas Sowell once said, “The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”
There’s a growing body of evidence that even if diversity— the kind that results from immigration — once made America stronger, it may not be doing so anymore. Robert Putnam, a liberal sociologist at Harvard, found that increased diversity corrodes civil society by eroding shared values, customs and institutions. People tend to “hunker down” and retreat from civil society, at least in the short and medium term.
There’s a growing body of evidence that even if diversity— the kind resulting from immigration — once made America stronger, it may not be doing so anymore.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Power and Diversity is our Strength!
Our strength has and always be Liberty and our success Faith in God.
Diversity in the workplace makes for inefficiency with the customer the victim. I’ve been questioning this assumption for years.
“Diversity is our strength”
Mindless mushy-headed liberal babble.
Immigrants used to assimilate and wait their turn.
It is an opinion column by Jonah Goldberg (semi-pseudo-conservative of the National Review), so it is in no way representative of the “uber liberal LA Times”..... like many publications, they allow the occasional dissenting voice just to pretend that they are open-minded. Of course, no one in the 90+% majority of liberal MSM would take this questioning of “diversity” seriously for a moment.
Most of the immigrants were descendants from Christendom and assimilation / integration was less of a problem.
What if Linda weren’t a doofus?
Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, Ukraine, are just a few very recent examples where diversity was not strength. In fact, diversity was fatal
Diversity of opinions is nearly always a good thing. That can be done with or without a variety of racial backgrounds. If you have 10 people on a committee - 5m, 5f, 3 white, 2 black, 1chinese, 1 Indian, 2 Hispanics and one Jew - but all of them are from upper class families from multiple generations - will have less diverse opinions than a group of 8m, 2f, 8 white, 1 black, 1 Asian but come from all types of backgrounds with regards to income and education.
Diversity of thought makes a society stronger, which is weird since people like Senatewhore Graham want to force all of us to think exactly alike.
They used to assimilate, and now we have a whole political class with their poisonous policies that encourage them not to do so. Even worse, they now encourage them to become welfare slaves.
With a stock portfolio it's to be prosperous. With a diet it's to be healthier. With exercise it's to be more fit and healthier. All shared goals. With people it only works if the goals and values are close enough aligned; otherwise it's a failing not a strength.
Different cultures may have a shared goal of being prosperous but not shared values on what it means to be prosperous. When these different cultures are thrown together they may both survive but not thrive; at least not like they would if they had shared values. They are going in different directions to acquire a different outcome. One culture may strive for wealth while another may strive for spiritual richness.
Sorry for the ramble. I sometimes wonder if the great American experiment is failing from too much diversity. Diversity is killing Europe as we speak.
Diversity is not a societal virtue by itself. If the diversity goes against Christianity, capitalism, logic, republicanism... that does not make us stronger. This is a meaningless phrase - fitting for Grahamnesty.
If you want to run a smooth and efficient business, the best thing to do is hire a bunch of people who speak as many different languages as possible and have no common basic morals. See how that goes, especially if your business has to follow English blueprints and instruction.
Diversity - is that not a derivative of DIVIDE. As in, divide and conquer. God used “diversity” to stop the tower of Babel.
Correctamundo! So, in truth, assimilation is strength. It brings people together under a common goal and common morals and values.
It’s diversity in skills that count, not diversity in ideology. Race isn’t supposed to be a contributing factor. It’s all about the how we ought to live ideology.
Other than that,”diversity is our strength” is a Madison Avenue platitude taken up as a mantra of those that want to radically change our ideology.
When diversity is defined in terms of ethnicity, skin pigment, and other superficial terms, diversity is a weakness.
when diversity is defined in terms of viewpoints, experience, education, and fields of knowledge, it can become a strength - but only through each diverse individual applying their talents and skills to achieve a unified goal.
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