Is Diversity Over Emphasized By Some? (Smyrna, East Point: crime rates, unemployment rate, schools)

[anilyn]

Originally Posted by Rapunzll

I saw an interview with a guy who wrote a book about the happiest places in the world. Strangely enough, they were places where the people were basically the same background. Maybe people just feel comfortable being around people they feel they understand better, heck if I know.

I have nothing against diversity, but it sure isn't the be all to end all with me. I can understand it's importance to biracial families.

I think that's true if you are part of the group, but if you are "a lone coffee bean in the sugar bowl" I think you would view things differently. I speak as the "lone coffee bean"

[Rapunzll]

Anilyn, I can understand that as well. But I don't think for most of white American it is or should be a huge deal. We can teach our children to be respectful of other races and religions even if they aren't represented in the same block. We should all be teaching our children to be kind, and we should all do the same, no matter what color or religion we might be or what color or religion our neighbors might be.

[anilyn]

Originally Posted by Rapunzll

Anilyn, I can understand that as well. But I don't think for most of white American it is or should be a huge deal. We can teach our children to be respectful of other races and religions even if they aren't represented in the same block. We should all be teaching our children to be kind, and we should all do the same, no matter what color or religion we might be or what color or religion our neighbors might be.

Oh I agree and I think that with each generation it become less and less of an issue on all sides.

[Dan Beorn]

Here's a post I posted on another thread about this same topic...
http://www.city-data.com/forum/gener...people-12.html

Alot of the discussion has been about that ultimate PC word "Diversity". Why does having "Diversity" mean that a place is better than one that doesn't. The places that have the most are usually hell-holes of the worst sort, full of crime, drugs and conflict (constantly arguing how to make diversity "work"). I live in Las Vegas. It is VERY diverse and HORRIBLE. If you want low crime-rates, good schools, graffiti-free streets with nice parks and people who smile and wave when you pass by... then go diversity-free. Think Portland Maine, Portland Oregon, Missoula Montana, Springfield Missouri, ect.

Nobody wants to admit it but everybody knows what I'm saying is true!!!

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by Dan Beorn

Here's a post I posted on another thread about this same topic...
http://www.city-data.com/forum/gener...people-12.html

Diversity-free doesn't always mean safe and crime free with good schools. I can personally attest to this.

[Scraper Enthusiast]

Originally Posted by Motion

I've seen various people post on here and on the other forums about how disappointed they are that a particular city,town or area wasn't that diverse. Now I think diversity is a good thing but I wonder if too many people over emphasize it sometimes? It seems like some people want to hold it against a town or city because they lack diversity. People need to realize that it's not possible for every town,city or state in America to have the perfect mix of diversity that they think they should have.

Diversity is Marxist speak for death to white America. When white America dies, so does this country. All the signs are there, whether they are economically, politically, socially, culturally, etc. Of course, white people, in their lock-step scareful thought are allowing this to happen. After all, they don't want to be (gasp) thought of as "racist", so they don't say anything. Traitors of America have allowed this to happen through all sectors of the government, as well as in private institutions. This country may have a lifespan of maybe twenty years left with the current crop of politicians we currently have. McCain: A liberal Republican. Hillary and Obama: Marxist/Socialist (bordering on communist thought) Democrats. A house half full of traitors, and a senate over two-thirds full of traitors.

[jjordan]

how droll.

[plessthanpointohfive]

Man, you sound really really REALLY crazy.

[Buckhead_Broker]

Originally Posted by willdufauve

"America." for simplicity, genocided the native Americans and Hawaiians, stole the southwest at the point of a gun, built the country with slavery, unfairly enriched themselves with Jim Crow, and has meddled in the legitimate affairs of brown people around the world from the Philippines, to Nicaragua, to the middle east.

In America, white people have always called the shots. Some white people resent that they're not calling the shots unilaterally anymore. There are laws now that hope to prevent segregation, discrimination, and lynching, so all the white people can do is give dirty looks, gossip, complain and trash diversity.

The world is mostly non-white, non-English speaking, and non-Christian. It's better to get used to it. Adapt and ride the wave, or watch your children and grandchildren fall further and further behind, and out of the loop.

Not that you are wrong in your assessment of America, but we're not the only ones. Virtually every nation was built on the backs of the indigenous peoples. Slavery existed before the Europeans arrived in Africa and still exists there today, so I don't harbour any guilt about what my ancestors did. That's history. But I do get tired of having the diversity issue shoved down our throats. I don't think it's as much a race issue as it is a class issue. I have numerous friends who are, as you call them, "brown people". Nobody had to force the acceptance of these people on me - we share common goals, concerns and interests.

[Huckleberry3911948]

people that seemed fixated on diversity are those that feel left out. once you
find stuff you like to do, being a member of the club becomes a lot less important.