Do you think this is ironic?

Question

People nowadays seem to praise diversity, but the word "diversity" is just another way of saying "divided". I can't stand all the multi-cultural crap in this country. Remembering and honoring your cultural heritage is important, but people take it way too far. Things like hyphenated Americanism only serve to drive a wedge between us. If we are all going to live together, we have to have more in common than simply where we live.

Fine. It's not ironic, it's just counterintuitive that people would strive to make this country a better place by putting everybody into nice, neat, narrow categories that often blind people to the benefits of the very thing they claim to be working for.

LOOK! All I'm saying is that people should be less concerned about their people's past, and the wrongs commited way back when, and be more concerned with trying to promote some kind of commonality that we, as a nation, can get behind. We should have more in common than differences.

Answer 1

Yes, but these days the phrase "divided we stand" just means that everyone who does not agree with you shouldn't have a voice. Is that what you are trying to tell us? Or do you believe in traditional American values like "freedom of speech" and "freedom of thought"? Must we all think alike?
What if someone is from a different culture, or has a friend from a different culture or a spouse? Is it crap? (Is it really any of your business?) Should they be silenced?
Probably you will say we should teach American values about democracy and freedom and I agree, but not if it is just a thin cover story for unbridled greed. We have something we sponsor called "Radio Liberty" _ RFE/RL. But this prorgam in Tatarstan does nothing other than pay for news about the same tired old former Communist party hacks who are still in power, and plays a bit of music. It teaches NOTHING about democracy. Is the what American taxpayer should be paying for?
We runaround and tell other countries what leaders they should elect and if they don't agree, we stage coups. Is that American values?
Isn't it true that those people who are complaining the loudest about "multi-culturalism, and who are also promoting the propaganda "United We Stand" the loudest, the very people who are actually are working the hardest to destroy real American values like freedom?
Our country is strong today because of the strong values and elbow grease immigrants brought here over the last 200+ years. It's a time-honored tradition. I am not supporting illegals, but if we push away the good decent hard-working people who struggle to make a new life here (just as your ancestors did BTW) we will just be destroying that which makes our country special.

Answer 2

Nope, don't think that's ironic at all. I do think, however, that you do not understand what the word "ironic" means.

Main Entry: iro·ny
Pronunciation: 'I-r&-nE also 'I(-&)r-nE
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -nies
Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirOnia, from eirOn dissembler
1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony
2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : a usually humorous or sardonic literary style or form characterized by irony c : an ironic expression or utterance
3 a (1) : incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result (2) : an event or result marked by such incongruity b : incongruity between a situation developed in a drama and the accompanying words or actions that is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play -- called also dramatic irony, tragic irony

Answer 3

I agree--either be an American (no hyphen) or go back to the hyphen world you or your ancestors came from. You can take pride in the history of your heritage, incorporate it into your modern world, but you can't live in the past, nor blame the battles between past cultures on your own ills.

We are not making as much progress as we could until everyone take personal responsibility for their own actions, and realizes that life isn't fair, and sometimes, life and other people can make you uncomfortable.

For god's sake, if you put a cup of hot coffee in between your legs, and it burns you....why is that the corporations' fault?

If you let your 5 year old, unattended in one room, have access to a cigarette lighter and he burns down the house, why is YOUR bad parenting the fault of the cigarette lighter company?

Answer 4

I am tired of hearing "diversity" too. We should be united not divided. Everyone wants to come to this country and hold on to the country they left behind and as a result our countries sinks more and more into a third world country. I hate hyphenated american anything. Most of the people have never evey seen the place they are identifying with. Most blacks have never even been to Africa so why are they African Americans? If they actually lived in Africa, I'm sure they would be in a hurry to come back to the U.S.

Answer 5

Diversity does not mean that you are divided. It means that you have a different style of doing the same thing. Consider recipies. Chicken is still chicken,asian,american,russian,spanish. We can make the same tired old bird taste new through diversity. Dig it?

Answer 6

it depends on how you interpret the word DIVERSITY. It could mean "a VARIETY of diffferent components/elements/PEOPLE, that make-up for ONE general similiarity".. All words can have different meanings. In regards to nationalities, the many VARIETIES make up the WHOLE of the nation.

Answer 7

But don't think of America as a melting pot; rather a tossed salad. Each bit of the salad keeps its individuality, but works together for the whole.

Answer 8

I wouldn't say its ironic. Instead, think of it as a grab bag of different cultures and beliefs coming TOGETHER. WE obviously work through our differences and respect one another.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

know what ironic means before you use it incorrectly.

diversity incearses understanding and hence reduces ignorance, the main culprit behind the division you are talking about. move forward with your thinking.