For lefties, it's about self guilt. They love diversity of color, race, sexual orientation, religion and every other measure except for thought. They love groups of people who all look different, as long as they all think alike. Organic diversity is a beautiful thing.
Diversity is thought not to be a good thing only by narrow minded bigots with some kind of cognitive impairment. Also, diversity is not a good thing because it includes the existence of narrow minded bigots with some kind of cognitive impairment.
So why do you think it is a good thing? It is really not an argument to call anti-diversity people "narrow minded bigots." It is like you are trying to promote diversity by shaming anti-diversity. Seems to me only weak minded individuals would fall for this shaming tactic. I like to make judgements based on facts. Only sheep go along with the crowd simply because it is a crowd. What precise cognitive impairment do you think I have? So, outside of Chinese take-out and falafel stands, what is so good about diversity that outweighs the obvious defects?
Gosh! That was profound and deep and meaningful..... Well, that puts you out of the debate! The price of re-entry is to make a sensible observation that has at least a tiny shred of evidence to help it along. Got anything like that?
This is why we have airplanes and airports (hopefully without hordes of feral lefties chanting ridiculous slogans) all over the world. Chinese women in China, Mexican women in Mexico, and American women in America. Or do you hate minorities?
And perhaps that was a good thing. Just because you failed to come up with a rebuttal for his argument, it does not make his post "stupid". So? Explain to me why just because someone is a fellow human, I HAVE TO like him, accept him, and befriend him? Note that calling me a "racist" won't work. Do you want to date a fat, ugly girl just because she is a fellow human being of the same species as you? No of course not. I am assuming you would want a thin, beautiful girl. It's the same principle at work here. I want to live with, work with, and befriend people who are smart, funny, successful, and who do not have strange customs, nor beliefs that are wildly incompatible with mine. It's called standards....do you liberals have any?
HAHAHAHA!!!!!! Oh, ffs!!!! Of course it would remotely exist! In the remote country of China! Oh boy, the childishness of some of the arguments here is just mind-boggling sometimes. You want other people to agree to allow untold unknown strangers into your country, just so you can get some sweet-and-sour chicken on Saturday night?
Wait, didn't those all christian all white countries get the world involved into 2 world wars? And no muslims were involved.
Yes, they did. What is your point? They didn't go to war because they were of different civilizations.
We didn't stop them from coming here. We took in their differences and they brought diversity. How many redheads were here before the Irish? They came here and all wasn't rosie, but over time things will assimilate. What are the American values that you think others can't assimilate with or we can't accommodate and adopt?
You might find this strange, but you've probably never had real Chinese food. [video=youtube;_vMjNPAgV6c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vMjNPAgV6c[/video]
No, why do you think we should have kept Europeans out? Its not like they were going to change the culture very dramatically. I don't want to ban Muslims because they fought in wars, I want to ban them because their deeply held values are incompatible with my deeply held values. I like Western Civilization. I want to see it survive. Muslims could care less about Western Civilization. In fact they detest many things about the West including our art treasures as demonstrated by the Muslim who set out to vandalize the Louvre. They vandalize everything outside of Muslim culture. I have personally seen that vandalization in a Buddhist grotto in far Western China. There were these marvelous cave paintings that survived centuries and which had the faces of the Buddhist Saints systematically rubbed out. They were literally defaced. Every one of them. And there were hundreds. Muslims think we eat filth. They think our women are whores and treat them even worse than whores. They think we don't wipe our asses. Islam is barbaric culture which is threatened by Modernity and that is why they are attacking the West. Their way of life cannot be sustained in the modern world and they are lashing out. Why do you want people who hate us and our culture into our country? They are not multiculturalists; why should I be? Perhaps they would shed their beliefs and prejudices enough to assimilate after a few generations, but perhaps not. Why take the chance? What is the upside? How is the assimilation going in Britain? (I'll tell you. Damn poorly.)
Talk to Native Americans of North, Central and South America about "cultural diversity" concerning cultures from different regions of the world with entirely different histories and values - other than all the Native American ethnicities literally extinct from the experience such 100 of every indigenous person of every island of the Caribbean. However, not ALL indigenous peoples of the Americans are extinct from the "diversity." They have built their populations up to a good 3% of what it was when Europeans first arrived. I suppose a case could be made that "diversity" is the ideal plan for radical population control. This does not just apply to the population reduction of the Americas. For example, as Muslims expanded into the greatest empire in the known history of earth in the past, the exterminated approximately 270,000,000 indigenous people - and when the world's population was dramatically lower than now - although Muslim populations grew. But it also is a way to end the "imperial" nature of the USA and stop the USA remaining the world super power. The Ottoman Empire became the most ethnically, religiously and racially diverse country in the Western and Eastern world. The result was when war came from the West most their minorities joined forces with the Western allies and the Ottoman Empire was finally eliminated. As a note, for those who claim the great melting pot of the USA's past immigration history made the USA great, it was a melting pot of essentially all white Christians making that greatness, ie core social and personal values cohesion.
Like everthing it is good in moderation. People still need a core 'sameness' to unite on. Maybe these are values or maybe it is national respect and pride.
Most likely because it requires people to abandon tribalism and use their frontal lobe to make it work. If you are more concerned with who is sleeping with who, and when then diversity is probably not for you. By the way, if you want to give colonialism another try feel free. Although that particular remedy for the fact that there are other skin colors, and religions in the world has not played out particularly well for the glorious white christian nations that have engaged in it.
I know. I don't find that strange at all. What we call "Chinese cuisine" is like processed confectionery compared to what the average Chinese citizen eats every day. I think I'd be a bit reluctant to eat some of the things the average Chinese citizen cooks up at home. I'd love to find out what brought about that odd Chinese predilection for eating bugs, grubs, and vermin. Obviously having a gigantic population with limited resources probably started it, but why does it persist, I wonder?
What culture? We are a land of immigrants. We fought the natives of this land to take it away from them. Everyone who came here brought a different culture. Some clashsed, some didn't. Eventually they assimilate. If you can't adapt to our culture of change, that is your problem, no one elses. One can take a similar attitude and say anyone who can't tolerate someone different should be forced to leave. Go back to your original culture. Muslims who immigrate west won't change western culture. The western culture is not going any where any time soon. Didn't the catholic christian church destroy a great many historical artifacts? In various countries in different time periods. Your hatred and ignorance falls on you. Radical muslims, is not all muslims.
A non-biased history book might be worth reading... They'll certainly be involved in the next one, though!
Perhaps some white christians are like some radical muslims and want to force something different upon the locals.
Of course there was poverty, crime and social strife. And these among people who had much in common. Why go through it again and with people with which we have almost nothing in common?