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.
Correctamundo! So, in truth, assimilation is strength. It brings people together under a common goal and common morals and values.
Clarence Thomas was right when he recently said he couldn’t see anything that bound us together as a nation. We aren’t even two nations; we are one that is traditionally “American” (somewhat in the mindset of the Founding Fathers in terms of the role of government and individuals), and countless smaller ones on the left that can’t even agree on anything between themselves. Obama won when those smaller ones were ALL aligned, and Hillary lost when a couple of segments split off (Bernie/Jill Stein types, others that just stayed home).
Kudos to the FReeper who referred to the barriers all over NYC before any parades now as “diversity barriers”!
“... promotion of multi-culturalism militates against the idea of a national common culture - e pluribus unum (out of many, one) - leaving nothing for any people to assimilate into?”
-The objective of the leftist overlords is to assimilate and converge on the dual religions of coercive collectivism and confiscating the earnings of the successful to drag them down into financial mediocrity and use the plunder plus debt to buy the votes & dependency of the proletariat hordes
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