"The Strength of Europe is its Diversity"

www.europa.eu ^ | 01/31/2007 | www.europa.eu

[word_warrior_bob]

And the downfall of the United States is our "diversity" IF:

Diversity means giving undeserving people jobs over people more qualified.

Diversity means giving other languages equal standing with the official language, allowing voting in other languages than english, etc.

Diversity means showing favoritism in immigration laws to people not easily assimilated or unwilling to assimilate into American culture, and putting up barriers to people willing to FOLLOW THE RULES to gain citizenship in the U.S.

Diversity means "hate" crimes

Diversity means "sensitivity" training, how long before the re-education camps?

Diversity means TAXPAYERS footing the bill for ILLEGAL CRIMMIGRANTS healthcare (I just invented a new word!) Which U.S. laws am I allowed to break?? Give me a list? Which U.S. laws I can break and be given money & benefits for.

Diversity means TAXPAYERS footing the bill for ILLEGAL immigrants car insurance in the form of SKYROCKETING rates for a driver like me with no points EVER.

Diversity means TAXPAYERS footing the bill for ILLEGAL immigrants to be educated here, they STEAL enough of peoples tax money that they can't put their kids through college but are FORCED to pay to educate ILLEGAL OCCUPANTS committing a crime.

I could go on forever, you can add your own.

It's no different than an ILLEGAL immigrant holding a gun to your head and saying, pay for hospital bill, pay for my kids education, pay higher car insurance so I can drive a car uninsured, AND THE POLITICIANS LET IT HAPPEN AND ENCOURAGE IT.

[Leisler]

The Ponzi artists are running out of new suckers. This is just a stop gap, final squeeze of lemon. Bringing in non western bodies is just like giving a last stage cancer patient a cocktail shot of morphine and vitamin B12.

[Billthedrill]

Well, there's diversity and then there's diversity - if the police are English, the cook is French, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian, and everything is organized by Swiss you have a pretty good thing going. When the police are German, the cooks English, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and everything is organized by Italians, well...

[Beckwith]

"They Live" is a fun movie!

They do, you know -- and you don't need glasses to see 'em.

[WesternCulture]

I'm not offended or anything, but let's be trifle realistic.

(You wrote:)

"Lately the culture of former Eastern European Soviet bloc- countries has surpassed anything coming out of France, Sweden,Germany even Italy/"

- When it comes to WESTERN European culture, do you mean to suggest that the great abyss of this particular branch of human culture represented by, for instance, Mozart, Rabelais, Schiller, The Nobel Prize institution, Goya or Petrarch etc, is no longer being properly attended to by WESTERN European inhabitants, while Eastern Europeans are enviable in this respect?

Or, do you believe Eastern Europe has produced so much more of cultural value than Western Europe since the wall came down?

I'd say you're wrong in any case.

Eastern Europe is not producing much of genuine culture presently. If it did, I would've noticed it.

I'm not claiming Western Europe is paying proper attention to its cultural heritage.

What I'm saying here is that NEARLY NO ONE OF US ARE.

If anyone does not understand the teachings of a man like Pico della Mirandola, he or she ought not to speak of culture.

- But if such a person wishes, sincerely, to LEARN about what culture is, two recommendable points of departure are these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian_Man

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_1/pico.html

Greetings from Gothenburg, Sweden!

[goodnesswins]

I don't understand why they don't BAN face coverings!? It's obvious why they are covering their faces....and it ain't good.

[Surtur]

Neither did fiddles. Anachronisms in satirical art are nothing new, but thanks for the history lesson, it was quite informative. I knew the arch was Roman, but wasn't aware of its history.

[WesternCulture]

Concerning burqa ban:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqa_ban

Read more:

http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&pg=aq&aqmode=s&aqa=&aqp=burqa+ban&aqo=&aqn=&aqb=&kgs=0&kls=0&dt=tmperiod&d2=0&dfr%5Bd%5D=1&dfr%5Bm%5D=1&dfr%5By%5D=1980&dto%5Bd%5D=31&dto%5Bm%5D=1&dto%5By%5D=2007&filetype=&rc=dmn&swd=&lh=&nbq=10

[goodnesswins]

Isn't that a GUY covering his face.....not a woman in a Burqa?

[AegirThor]

Exactly. Some people want a kleptocracy like Chavez' Venezuela. I keep meeting Venezuelans here in the UK who have escaped his regime and want to live somewhere a bit more sane. However with Blair and Cameron (Blair Lite) I hasten to add that it is only a 'bit' more sane.

[Publius6961]

An alternative assertion to European strength consisting in thoughtless PC gaiety would be the immense, unsurpassed European contribution to the development of Technology, Science and the depiction of Man and his life here upon Earth as interpreted by the Humanist ideals stemming from The Renaissance and Antiquity.

Unfortunately, that is not much use against the most severe threat facing the world, against an enemy for whom neither antiquity nor the rennaissance means much...

[Fishrrman]

"The Strength of Europe is its Diversity"

This is right out of Orwell. It belongs in a hallowed spot right next to, "freedom is slavery".

Diversity is never a strength because race is never a strength.

I think you really ought to give reconsideration to the latter portion of your statement above.

- John

[george76]

We want Europe to be successful.

We do not hate Europe.

Many of our ancestors came from Europe.

Our issue is that we do not like seeing another hateful group of thugs trying to take over Europe.

[Major_Risktaker]

Diversity means blending the third worlds ignorant & starving population with first world countries and destroying western civilization boarders as they are today to achieve a Star Trek like UN new world order super government.

Some of Hollywood's super wealth show the world the way to a global cumbia life style of diversity.

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Heidi Klum and Husband Seal.

Heidi Klum with new baby.

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Brad Pitt and Family

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Madonna and adopted baby.

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The way to conquer Islam is to liberate Islamic Women.

Separate Islamic women from their Islamic husbands by western world integration and in time Islam will fail just like Christianity is failing today.

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One more thing.

homogeneity vs. xenophobia

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This homogeneity, as many Japanese attest, is the cement which has held this nation together, and it can be used to explain a number of various cultural phenomena, such as the aforementioned ideological flexibility.

Snip:

Thus, capitalism is in full swing, whereas gay marriage is very likely a few millenia off in Japan.

Snip:

Are the news reports xenophobia, perhaps even racism? Perhaps they are. But if I compare them to news headlines coming from the States, it is really not much different. Gays are scapegoated for spreading STDs, Muslims are scapegoated for terrorism, Christians are attacked for spreading non-science, conservatives are blamed for economic troubles and liberals are blamed for the breakdown of the nuclear family. Japanese xenophobia is increasingly understandable in this comparative light, and given their history - who can blame them?

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To sum it up, Diversity is like a massive Global Migration Ghettoization wealth redistribution program for UN Liberal Communist via the G8 countries.

[Publius6961]

Europe's strength has come primarily from the United States shouldering the burden of their common defense for over 60 years.

OUCH!
That's gonna leave a mark!

[Publius6961]

Wow.
Just wow!

[Publius6961]

We have signs all over bus shelters etc. up here in Toronto that say this exact message, "Diversity is our Strength".

Well, it might be accurate, so far as it goes.
Canada is now a third-rate nation, a self-imposed demotion; they can call the result pretty much anything they want.

[Publius6961]

Eastern Europe is not producing much of genuine culture presently. If it did, I would've noticed it.

You may have failed to notice it, but neither has Western Europe, for over 75 years, now.

[Publius6961]

Actually, "Nero" is being portrayed by Jacques Chirac with the backdrop being the Arc de Triomphe The cartoon is probably about the Paris riots of the past year.

Some people wear cultural straightjackets.
Cartoons are editorials by symbolism, not doctoral history dissertations...