FJO
Gold Member
Diversity is a most commendable and peaceful way towards understanding differences.
In the city where I live there is a two week celebration of diversity, where different ethnic groups display their best in culture and cooking.
In different pavilions you can see Ethiopians liking Scottish haggis, Irish immigrants enjoying the performance of Korean dances, French eating hamburgers while listening to country and western, Italians eating Swedish herrings, Russians drinking German beer, Hungarians eating refried beans while Mexicans enjoy goulash.
If only the world could be as unpoliticised and peaceful as our two weeks in the summer, the world would be a better place.
Diversity sure worked great in Sri Lanka. Tens of thousands of people were killed in a brutal decades long civil war there between the two major ethnic divisions. How about Syria where the Muslims are killing all the Christians? Egypt? Nope, they're killing Christians there as well. India? Muslims regularly go on the rampage and kill dozens of Hindus. South Africa? The Xhosa regularly kill Zulus. Rwanda? The Hutus slaughtered the Tutsi.
Wherever you look "diversity" only leads to bloodshed and civil strife.
What I meant to say, and I thought it was clear in my post, that UNPOLITICIZED diversity is a way to better understanding and more peaceful co-existence.