"Honey, you know I could have sworn the neighborhood used to be a nicer place to live before this guy showed up, but our HR department keeps telling me how much richer my life is now. Which is it?"
This “downside” is only a temporary dip before the eventual rise. The reality is that diversity of thought, value systems, experience, and ideas can only help in solving any and all problems society may have.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same result. Well, with diversity, no one will ever try and solve a problem in the same way, thus increasing the probability that any and all problems of society will ultimately be solved in the least time consuming way.
Additionally, aren’t the chances of producing genetically diseased babies markedly reduced when diverse couples intermarry? Recessive and harmful genetic traits are totally killed off in populations that enjoy interexchange of DNA, and this is symbolic of the societal benefits as well.
Rome forged a new people - so will we.
community
n
Definition: agreement, similarity
Antonyms: disagreement, dissimilarity
Our proximity to our neighbors is not what makes community. What we share together makes us a community, not how we are different.
Only if you have a priori opinions about diversity's value. And we know all scientists wouldn't dream of having preconceived notions.
"Honey, you know I could have sworn the neighborhood used to be a nicer place to live before this guy showed up, but our HR department keeps telling me how much richer my life is now. Which is it?"
From the article:
When he [Putnam] finally published a detailed scholarly analysis in June in the journal Scandinavian Political Studies, he faced criticism for straying from data into advocacy. His paper argues strongly that the negative effects of diversity can be remedied, and says history suggests that ethnic diversity may eventually fade as a sharp line of social demarcation.
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In the final quarter of his paper, Putnam puts the diversity challenge in a broader context by describing how social identity can change over time. Experience shows that social divisions can eventually give way to "more encompassing identities" that create a "new, more capacious sense of 'we,'" he writes.
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Totally without foundation. Anyone who believes that ethnic diversity makes a society stronger is an ignorant fool.
It wasn’t necessary to do a costly massive study. It was obvious to anyone with a brain.
... which is, of course exactly what the libs want - when/what the 'diverse' community won't do for themselves, they wll rely on - and demand that - gubmint to do it for them.
The libs are msart enough to figure that one out, in their malicious way.