As Americans shouldn't we celebrate diversity ?

Question

We are a large country with room for all.

responder...LAWFUL diversity

Scottie J...celebrate diversity to me means all of Gods children getting along TOGETHER just like he intended...love everybody

Answer 1

yes we should.........thats what has made america strong

Answer 2

Diversity is terrific, wonderful, great. However, the combination of not respecting our laws and refusing to assimilate into our culture isn't what diversity is about. I believe (and this is only my personal thought) that people that immigrants who come to America that truly want to become Americans are what makes this country strong. There is your diversity. Those who come to make a quick buck and refuse to embrace the American culture or values aren't really bringing anything to the table as far as diversity or improvement to our nation.

Academics- You do understand that all of the world's boundaries throughout history were made through conquest? My question to you is simple. If you still had Texas, California, and Colorado, what would've been done with it? Poverty, crooked cops and governent, no infrastructure? All it would be is a larger country for people to escape to find work.

Answer 3

Yes, we should celebrate diversity. I live in California and we have probably the widest range of diversity out there. It's not just black and white over here, California has a wide range of Asian, Hispanic and Middle Eastern cultures here.

Now when you say "We are a large country with room for all." I tend to say whoa! America does need to slow down a bit on her growth rate.

Carrying capacity should not be measured by the square miles but the country's capability to handle large masses of people through its infrastructure i.e. schools, hospitals, roads, prisons/jails and so forth.

Did you know that the United States passed the 300 million mark for people?

Over here in California we have 36 million residents and our prison system is so over crowded with 170,000+ inmates, that the Federal Courts are threatening to take over the prison system if overcrowding isn't relieved. One only needs to look to Los Angeles to see the stain on its public school system and county hospitals.

We should celebrate the diversity we have but we shouldn't act like we can accommodate any and every future wave of masses just because America's land size is huge.

Answer 4

When I hear the word diversity I associate it with preferential treatment and wasting our tax dollors for some politicians pie in the sky social agenda. Diversity means everyone being everyone who is differnent living together in peace which is a bunch of crap. Look at Europe for the last two centuries., they had diverse cultures and fought two world wars and still cannot get along. Yea, diversity is swell.

Answer 5

I think we DO celebrate diversity, for the most part. However, we don't celebrate insanity, and that's what some people are trying to sell as diversity today.

Have you ever lived in a nation where everyone speaks a different language and they all refuse to learn each other's? This is why we typically expect people coming here to learn our language, among other things. It's not too much to ask, and any objections I've ever heard to that idea are based on emotional responses.

Answer 6

We do celebrate diversity but we don't like people sneakily entering our country. I thinks it's an insult to all our ancestors who came here through the proper legal channels and worked hard to gain their citizenship. People that sneak in are deceivers and we really don't know what they motive is for being here. Especially when no one knows that they are even here.

Answer 7

You do have a large country and there is room for all. The problem is a percentage of people whom mentally cannot handle diversity. Often those are discriminators in one or more ways. Those are the reason why communities and countries get bad publicity. They shout so immensely loud and the ones that has common sense doesn't stand up to them.

That's why you have Bush as president. A bully chosen by bullies.

Answer 8

We can't take them all in our schools and hospitals or pay for them with money we are putting aside in our service funds to cover our own old age.

And it isn't diversity when so many come from one place just because it is next door.

Answer 9

You're mistaken. In America, only people of color can celebrate their diversity. As soon as I want white history month, I'll get shot.

Answer 10

Yes, to a large extent but diversity isn't always good. Where would the pedophiles fit in?... I think your question is leading somewhere

Answer 11

I'd say since we are already the most diverse nation on the planet its time for some other countries to catch up and then we can celebrate that.