I guess to some extent that is chickens coming home to roost, since it was pseudoscience embraced by Europeans that led to this wrongheaded thinking. They created racial theories to justify their imperialism over "inferior" races. Now that idea has grown into a mindset that will probably be impossible to eliminate.
The stupidity in this is exemplified by the fact that an Egyptian (classified black by many) very likely has much more in common, genetically, with with an Italian (classified white) than with a Zulu (also classified black). A Morrocan African almost certainly has more in common genetically with a Hispanic from Spain, than native of Zimbabwe.
Racial classification is the ROOT of racism.
While our diverse backgrounds are a good deal of what has propelled this nation to it's status in the world, it is only because we assimilate, taking on good aspects of the cultures, while discarding that which is lesser. Those who refuse to assimilate, who wish to transform this into a copy of their own cultures, stand in the way of America continuing that rise to greatness.
"Diversity" and "Division" have the same word at the root... DIVIDE. People are not brought together by celebrating their "diversity", the ways they are different... they are brought together by emphasizing the things they have in common
"People are not brought together by celebrating their "diversity", the ways they are different... they are brought together by emphasizing the things they have in common"
yes!
I once had the word 'diversity' defined for me in a business situation by a young black woman.
"It means," she said, "getting rid of all those fifty year old white guys."
Says it all.
btw "Orientals" is a banned term these days. It's "Asian."