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HELP - Explain it to me like I'm a 3rd grader - What is it that's good about "diversity."
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Posted on 01/21/2003 9:51:06 AM PST by Positive

I don't get it - President Bush says we need diversity - every politician says we need diversity - teachers - professors - deans and school boards say we need diversity.

I'm fairly informed about politics so there's no need to tell me that it's all hyperbole/rhetoric/disinformation etc. I'm actually trying to find out if there are really, literally some intrinsic benefits to "diversity" and what exactly are they?


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To: Positive; RoughDobermann
What is it that's good about "diversity."

It displaces the concept of organic community rooted in boring old things like shared culture, language, affinity, and family, and replaces it with pseudo-community, in which all members have nothing in common except their re-engineering as economic units of production and consumption. Government's attention-getting stunts and the corpocracy's imposition of frenzied economic activity meanwhile, are proposed as a fair trade for the suppression of authentic culture, tradition, memory, and the family's privileged zone of privacy and moral sovereignty.

Sounds like fun, dunnit?

21 posted on 01/21/2003 10:09:05 AM PST by Romulus
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To: Eva
They also don't consider diversity (rightly) to apply to diversity of thought. They are only interested in the obvious differences like sex and skin color.
22 posted on 01/21/2003 10:09:41 AM PST by lainie
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To: Positive
I consider myself to be a states rights supporter. One thing that having individual states craft laws in the way they see fit is that you end up with diversity in approaches. This allows different ways of doing things to be tested out, and leads to more rapid improvement as the best ideas are accepted and the worst ideas are discarded or improved upon.

Diversity works in this manner. Different perspectives and different ways of looking at things leads to more innovation, more creativity.

Forced diversity, however, is government sponsored bigotry and can never work.

23 posted on 01/21/2003 10:11:23 AM PST by William McKinley
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To: Eva
liberals don't use rational debate, they don't have logical thought processes.

Oh, they have logical thought processes alright, it's just not the same as you and me. They use a word like "Diversity", knowing that most people will just take the dictionary definition of the word and think that the Liberals mean the same thing. In fact, they bank on it, because they know that people will be in favor of what they think the Liberals are saying, and all the while the Liberals mean something else. When their charade is found out, the Liberals blame the "eeeeevilll Republicans" for causing the problems brought about by the Liberals' pursuit of their real agenda.

24 posted on 01/21/2003 10:15:17 AM PST by nobdysfool
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To: Positive
Diversity is a big lie. It says that the murderous religions of Islam and of Satanism are equal to Christianity. It's very root word, diverge, means to split up and seperate, to go seperate paths. Diversity of cultures only leads to problems.

The only diversity we need is a diversity of ideas. And then we throw out the bad ones and keep the good ones.
25 posted on 01/21/2003 10:16:30 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (At least one patient dies in every abortion.)
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To: Positive
The more diverse, diverse it gets.
26 posted on 01/21/2003 10:16:34 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Positive
All of us together are smarter than any one of us alone?
27 posted on 01/21/2003 10:17:38 AM PST by FairWitness
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To: Positive
Well here is a little story about myself

I grew up in an area that had folks from different races, different religions and different income levels. I was brought up not to look at a person by their color, their religion or where the came from but to look at the person on their merits and the kind of person they were. Some were the nicest folks you'd ever meet and others were the biggest jerks on the face of the earth

That to me is diversity but I am sure many here will think I am wrong
28 posted on 01/21/2003 10:18:48 AM PST by Mo1 (Support Free Republic and become a Monthly Donor)
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To: Positive
Diversity is an excellent tool of improving a culture. Contact with other ways of doing things, with other ways of thinking and with other ways of approaching problems allows a culture to pick and choose that which works best. The U.S. has been the most diverse culture in the history of the world, it is a melting pot of scores of cultures and has taken on a flavor from each culture that is introduced.

Sadly, many today would rather that the cultures remain seperate ruing what has been our strength. They call for "diversity of cultures" rather than "diversity within our culture". When you are in your local mall's food court and you look around at the selection of crap-tacular food they serve, you will see why "diversity within a culture" works. You can get a slice of pepperoni pizza (Italian), an egg roll (Chinese), a Gyro (Greek), a hot dog (German), or a taco (Mexican). And you can wash it down with an ice cold Coke (American). Diversity at work.

American culture is the Borg. We take what is best about every culture we come in contact with and we assimilate it into our own culture to make our own culture stronger. Encouragement of diversity will make our culture stronger, while discouragement of diversity (segregating cultures away from the one American culture) will sap us of strength.

29 posted on 01/21/2003 10:19:48 AM PST by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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To: lainie
Exactly. You are allowed to be diverse.... as long as you think just like the "correct thinking" people.
30 posted on 01/21/2003 10:19:59 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (At least one patient dies in every abortion.)
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To: Positive
The most important thing about diversity is when it is ignored in favor of a higher calling, that is, when unity triumphs over diversity. That's why you see that athletes on a team that are all fighting for the same goal don't care what color their teammates are. Same for the military; who cares what the color of your buddy is if he is the guy that's going to watch your back and help you get home to your wife and children.

There is no strength in Diversity. There is only strength in Unity of purpose.

31 posted on 01/21/2003 10:20:21 AM PST by webstersII
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To: A Vast RightWing Conspirator; Positive
Cultural and ethnic homogeneity are the natural state of human multitudes.

I think your third grade education was a little more intense than mine was.

If you want to know the value of diversity, go to a bakery and get a dozen donuts for yourself and five of your closest friends. You won't select twelve different donuts if they all like eclaires, but you could. Everyone doesn't have to eat exactly two donuts either, but if everyone wanted to they could.

Even if this experiment doesn't teach you or your friends about diversity, everyone still gets a donut or two, and isn't that just as important as learning?

32 posted on 01/21/2003 10:21:56 AM PST by jz638
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To: Positive
'Diversity' is how 'unity'is spelled in today's lexicon of misconceptions.
33 posted on 01/21/2003 10:24:13 AM PST by Lee Heggy
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To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
When you are in your local mall's food court and you look around at the selection of crap-tacular food they serve, you will see why "diversity within a culture" works. You can get a slice of pepperoni pizza (Italian), an egg roll (Chinese), a Gyro (Greek), a hot dog (German), or a taco (Mexican). And you can wash it down with an ice cold Coke (American). Diversity at work.

What happens when you go to place your order and the employee behind the counter can barely speak or understand English? Welcome to diversity, hungry diversity....

34 posted on 01/21/2003 10:24:23 AM PST by RoughDobermann
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To: RoughDobermann
"Can you tell me what the intrinsic benefits of a homogeneous soceity are?"

It can be noted that most things called a "society" are the source of "nations" which seem to spring up from the homogenous beings therein-BUT thereafter seem to seek to want to take over societies not like their own...Rome...Greece...etc etc. Curious that "like" gets it started,no?

35 posted on 01/21/2003 10:25:07 AM PST by litehaus
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To: Positive
For many generations it was common knowledge that the strength of America sprung from the fact that our society was a "melting pot" - many of us oldsters (over 40) will have no trouble remembering that.

"Diversity", being the opposite, should then weaken our nation. Given that the disintegration of America is the effective goal of liberalism it stands to reason that "diversity" would be one of their chief tenants.

And it's working, too.

Diversity, like socialism, sucks.

36 posted on 01/21/2003 10:25:49 AM PST by The Duke
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To: Positive
Its benefits are tremendous. If you don't like pizza, you can have tacos, no tacos then goulash, no goulash then gyros, no gyros then Mongolian beef, or ribs or burgers. Without diversity we would starve.
37 posted on 01/21/2003 10:25:59 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit
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To: Positive
By the way, in England they actually have a "diversity police", which are nothing other than George Orwell's "thought police". And if you look at the top of most goverment orgs, such as the FBI - and even at the top of many large corporations, you will find an "office of diversity".
38 posted on 01/21/2003 10:27:28 AM PST by The Duke
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To: Mo1
I grew up in an area that had folks from different races, different religions and different income levels. I was brought up not to look at a person by their color, their religion or where the came from but to look at the person on their merits and the kind of person they were.

I grew up in an area where pretty much everyone was white and Irish, where almost everyone was Catholic, and where we were almost all lower middle class. I was brought up not to look at a person by their color, their religion or where the came from but to look at the person on their merits and the kind of person they were.

39 posted on 01/21/2003 10:31:45 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: jz638
If you want to know the value of diversity, go to a bakery

This is so funny but... it has nothing to do with the kind of 'diversity' discussed here. (Note: at least some people here were able to overcome the 'third grade' mental state).

If you REALLY want to see 'diversity'... go to 'China Town' (count the Chinese there). Then go to 'Little Italy' (count the Italians there). Then go to 'Little Odessa'... etc, etc. (did I mention Harlem, Wash Heights? They are all in New York. Then write a third grade level essay on why people tend to naturally want to live with and near those like them.

40 posted on 01/21/2003 10:32:06 AM PST by A Vast RightWing Conspirator
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