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Diversity is bad when it is an obsession to the point that you have hangups about not being so!
I watched companies like QuestDiagnostics go under because their board of directors became so obsessed with it that they had to make sure their next CEO was a minority regardless if he could run the company. He ran the company into the ground. Insurance companies like Blue Cross will no longer do business with them.
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Originally Posted by JeffSanDimas
2 questions
1. What is so special about diversity? Besides the food
2. Why is it bad if I don't want to live in a diverse place? At least culturally, color is a non-factor to me, culture is...I live in "multicultural" SoCal my whole life and I find the mess of languages and cultures divisive. I would like to live in a place where I don't have to avoid entire neighborhoods because nobody speaks my language or has any commonality culturally with me. I would just like to live in a purely American (anglophone, steak and potatoes, football and apple pie and Stars and Stripes waving) city. If people want to live in a "diverse" place that is there prerogative, but I get the vibe that not liking diversity is something frowned upon here.
1. What is so special about diversity? Besides the food
2. Why is it bad if I don't want to live in a diverse place? At least culturally, color is a non-factor to me, culture is...I live in "multicultural" SoCal my whole life and I find the mess of languages and cultures divisive. I would like to live in a place where I don't have to avoid entire neighborhoods because nobody speaks my language or has any commonality culturally with me. I would just like to live in a purely American (anglophone, steak and potatoes, football and apple pie and Stars and Stripes waving) city. If people want to live in a "diverse" place that is there prerogative, but I get the vibe that not liking diversity is something frowned upon here.
We hear a lot that "diversity is our strength" but I think a better case can be made that non-diverse societies have stronger social cohesion. I believe someone did some scholarly research on this, and came to the exact same conclusion; but I don't recall the specifics. Certainly, the historic trend has been that most people in most places in most times have preferred to be around people like themselves. "Diversity" for its own sake seems to be a recent innovation.
There was a Harvard Research Professor that did an extensive study on diverse and non-diverse neighborhoods and found that the more diverse neighborhoods is, there is less community involvement and so forth.
1. What is so special about diversity? Besides the food
2. Why is it bad if I don't want to live in a diverse place? At least culturally, color is a non-factor to me, culture is...I live in "multicultural" SoCal my whole life and I find the mess of languages and cultures divisive. I would like to live in a place where I don't have to avoid entire neighborhoods because nobody speaks my language or has any commonality culturally with me. I would just like to live in a purely American (anglophone, steak and potatoes, football and apple pie and Stars and Stripes waving) city. If people want to live in a "diverse" place that is there prerogative, but I get the vibe that not liking diversity is something frowned upon here.
1. What is so special about diversity? Besides the food
2. Why is it bad if I don't want to live in a diverse place? At least culturally, color is a non-factor to me, culture is...I live in "multicultural" SoCal my whole life and I find the mess of languages and cultures divisive. I would like to live in a place where I don't have to avoid entire neighborhoods because nobody speaks my language or has any commonality culturally with me. I would just like to live in a purely American (anglophone, steak and potatoes, football and apple pie and Stars and Stripes waving) city. If people want to live in a "diverse" place that is there prerogative, but I get the vibe that not liking diversity is something frowned upon here.
Color is never a "non-factor" regarding the people that dislike diversity...
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