I guess if the school feels that, they can. Personally, I think it’s a stupid rule because it can lead to a lot of problems.
Back in the dark ages when I was in school we were taught that the US was a melting pot. We were taught that the diversity of customs, knowledge, and culture actually lead to ours being a superior nation.
Now, we are reverting back to our tribes. The last time my family was in a tribe was when my ancestors were battling the Vikings in Mercia.
We have all been taught a lot of things that turned out not to be true.
We are superior because of massive untapped natural resources and their being exploited by competent ambitious people since our founding.
Give this entire nation to Somalia, and it would be sea to sea slums with desperate poverty and casual murder.
Europe is finding out how much benefit "diversity" is right now. So far it's not looking good.
“We were taught that the diversity of customs, knowledge, and culture actually lead to ours being a superior nation.”
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “diversity” is defined as “the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.”
That involvment doesn’t necessarily mean a workable or even a successful involvment. There are many basic problems with trying to use diversity to create harmony.
Diversity is first of all a recognition of differences. Is it okay to beat and rape your wife because your religion says it is? Is it okay to hate black Americans because of their color? Is it okay for the people who have used the melting pot to achieve being punished for it? These are problems that have predated the existance of the US and are still problems. And as long as problems like these are superficially handled by the broom and the nearest rug, the can goes down the road until it sticks its head up again, normally worse than the last time.
The “con” of saying diversity makes us stronger is like saying Custer hated the Lacota Sioux until it killed him. And as long as the government tells us what to be satisfied (or overjoyed) with so they can continue to survive while others on the streets don’t, then their diversity is the only place it has been successfully recognized and accultured. But only in their little world. The real one out here is still suffeing the same problems no matter what law they make.
And if you don’t believe they are disengenuous, find out how many anti-gun people in congress have armed body guards.
wy69
“We were taught that the diversity of customs, knowledge, and culture actually lead to ours being a superior nation.”
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “diversity” is defined as “the practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.”
That involvment doesn’t necessarily mean a workable or even a successful involvment. There are many basic problems with trying to use diversity to create harmony.
Diversity is first of all a recognition of differences. Is it okay to beat and rape your wife because your religion says it is? Is it okay to hate black Americans because of their color? Is it okay for the people who have used the melting pot to achieve being punished for it? These are problems that have predated the existance of the US and are still problems. And as long as problems like these are superficially handled by the broom and the nearest rug, the can goes down the road until it sticks its head up again, normally worse than the last time.
The “con” of saying diversity makes us stronger is like saying Custer hated the Lacota Sioux until it killed him. And as long as the government tells us what to be satisfied (or overjoyed) with so they can continue to survive while others on the streets don’t, then their diversity is the only place it has been successfully recognized and accultured. But only in their little world. The real one out here is still suffeing the same problems no matter what law they make.
And if you don’t believe they are disengenuous, find out how many anti-gun people in congress have armed body guards.
wy69
The point of the Melting Pot was that everybody contributed to one unique American Culture.
But somewhere along the line, people said that was racist and white supremacist, or something.