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Diversity is still not the norm. Maybe city-data just attracts more people outside the norm.
Diversity is talked about a lot on C-D because pretty much all of the top U.S. cities and metropolitan areas are pretty diverse. This includes the D.C. area of course.
I remember reading a graph of cities that showed a strong correlation between the size of their metro areas and their diversity.
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Seems the OP is projecting their views onto others. "Well this is how I feel so this must be how everyone else feels too!"
I can only speak for myself and people I've talked to about this. I think it comes down to excitement...places with culture and diversity are exciting. Places lacking them are boring. It's really fun to talk and befriend people with very different experiences than you and experience different foods, music, and things you've never even considered before. The old adage variety is the spice of life rings very true to me and probably a lot of other people too. I am going to guess these reasons are more in line with what goes on in others heads rather than "Well I don't really like this - but I better conform to what society thinks!"
I suspect that they have before, and since you've been trolling hard from the moment you began this account, I suspect they will again.
Yeah, this guy ended up on my 'Ignore' list pretty soon after he started posting here.
What I want to know is: why does City-Data attract so many people who seem to be working through their issues with race/class/diversity/whatever? This forum is like a therapist's couch sometimes.
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I don't think comments about trolling are helpful at all. Maybe they should be reported - I really hate attempts at censorship by claiming that someone is a troll, that's a personal attack unless the person is being exceptionally rude or continually distracting to a conversation.
Whether one should link to elsewhere on the forum is a rules issue best decided by mods. I've done it, and am not aware of any rules against it.
Now with that out of the way, I'd like to say that I love diversity when I'm traveling, but I'm not very comfortable living inside it in my immediate neighborhood, depending on the groups involved and whether they have a reputation for criminality. I like diversity in a city or even village, as long as the other ethnic groups are at a bit of a distance.
I think young, well-educated people honestly want to live in ethnically diverse areas, but sometimes they lose that desire when they come up against hard realities. That's why it seems (at least to me) that middle-aged and older people tend to move to communities full of people like them. It's more comfortable, not that the person is being consciously or actually racist.
I don't think comments about trolling are helpful at all. Maybe they should be reported - I really hate attempts at censorship by claiming that someone is a troll, that's a personal attack unless the person is being exceptionally rude or continually distracting to a conversation.
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And it's also against the TOS to label someone a troll.
What is so inherently good about "the norm"? If we all lived by what has been the norm for most people throughout history, we would all be living in conditions of abject poverty by todays standards.
I've noticed people on these city data forums now require this in any prospective place they live. It's like they've been trained to say this or or to believe they want this, by someone--the media, or the group conformity of these forums. I have the feeling they don't even believe this, it's just something they say because everyone else says it too.
Love the 'I want the best schools in the nation, money is no object, must be super safe, with all my favorite high-end organic stores AND I want a lot of diversity too!'
Kind of like a special order at McDonalds...'I want the super size fries, the bypass burger with extra mayo, the super large ice cream with a ton of fudge, AND a super sized diet coke because I'm healthy too!'
That being said, I like 'diversity' as well....but I do agree that there is misuse of the word at times.
But, I think that people who actually do live in diverse areas, and know what it means exactly, do value it.
When I was growing up in Toronto in the 50's our idea of exotic ethnic food was a pizza,LOL.
Diverse? Not.
Our idea of being a little less discriminatory was to let the Roman Catholics have a few good jobs. I kid you not. What a different and better place TO is now.
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