[lit-ideas] Re: Diversity Questions
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 13:25:27 -0500
Lucky for Eric, I'm in a know-it-all mood today.
If anyone has any doubts about the positive social values of diversity, let
him come South. But you need to hurry. Hispanics are popping up like
mushrooms and the Asian community is quickly losing its inscrutability to
familiarity. When I was growing up in Memphis there were only two groups
of any consequence here: white Baptists and black Baptists. The white
Baptists were certain of their certainties. The black Baptists weren't
allowed to voice an opinion. There were no ethnic neighborhoods, everyone
was Northern European only 18 Jews and half of them were Jews for Jesus.
Suffice it to say there was only one official opinion and it closely
paralleled that of the KKK. Our Jihadists. Wherever you find art and
architecture and intellectual institutions, you find diversity. The South
has none of that. Except Elvis, of course.
Mike Geary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric Yost" <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 11:06 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Diversity Questions
While on the subject of national languages, I wanted to ask about
diversity. For the past thirty years at least, everyone here has been
bombarded with a simple, optimistic proposition:
Diversity is strength.
What empirical evidence do we have to support that proposition? Is it just
an act of faith? Do we have actual evidence that diversity is strength or
is just a leap of intuition? Do we merely HOPE that diversity is strength?
Furthermore, assuming diversity IS strength, where does the path of
encouraging this diversity lead? America takes people from all over the
world in the name of diversity, gets them to accept capitalist monoculture
and thrive in it...and do what?
Become more homogeneous?
Isn't "accepting diversity" a way of taming diversity so as to destroy it?
Doesn't the "accepting diversity" route ultimately lead to uniformity?
Asking questions without an agenda,
Eric
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