Answers inline > -----Original Message----- > To: CF-Community > Subject: Is Diversity bad?
> Do you socialize with you neighbors who either can not or will not > speak your primary language in public? I don't socialize with my neighbors at all. > Do you vote when the ballot is primarily issues that do not concern > your ethnic or socio-economic group? I always vote. Voting is the one thing that can make real change in our government. Local, State or National, I'm there. > Do you volunteer in areas where the main beneficiaries are not of your > ethnic or socio-economic group? I don't volunteer anymore. I wish I had the time. When I did though it was either political things I agreed with, some kind of software project, or something where the beneficiaries ethnic or socio-economic group was irrelevant. > Do you feel you have a say in government when your representative is of > a different ethnic group than your own? 99.9999999999999% I would say no. It is a fact in the U.S. that the vast majority of non-whites in politics are democrats or further left. As a libertarian though, I don't feel I have say with 99.9999999999999% of white politicians either. haha > I personally can only answer yes to two of these questions. > > I think all of these issues are long term problems as opposed to short > term problems. I suspect everyone here has had exposure to other > cultures in grammar, middle and high school and especially college. I > suspect we were greatly idealistic > in school, but the real world has changed us, for the worse. > > It strikes me that forced diversity leads to a backlash and xenophobia. > I don't think it leads to racism in the "separate but equal" mode. It > is just a "birds of a feather" thing, IMO. Tough subject. Interesting in light of recent supreme court cases that let some forced integration school districts off federal oversight recently. Also viewed through the emotions around the immigration issue in the U.S. right now. Whether one likes to admit it or not, we as Americans have a distinct national culture. This culture also has sub-cultures. Often time when these sub-cultures are forced to co-exist there is going to be strife. These groups do not just break down along lines of race, but also to groups(religious, political), levels of income and even along lines of gender and sexuality. To be honest the more time passes the more I come to support, in theory at least, the idea of a more federalized system within the U.S., giving states much of their powers back, and moving away from so much national legislation. People need to realize that local problems often need to be solved locally. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:240506 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
