diversity

Maybe I'm wrong but isn't the meaning of diversity the difference between one thing and something else? To celebrate diversity is to celebrate differences. Shouldn't we be celebrating similarities that we hold in common rather than the differences that separate and fragment us as humans?

Diversity seems to be the buzzword nowdays. Celebrating diversity to bring cultures together is like a Jew and an Arab having dinner together, discussing their hatreds of each other. Sure, it's great that they sit down at the same table but the dinner conversation leaves much to be desired.
Wouldn't it be more constructive for the Jew and Arab to discuss their shared ancestry, physical characteristics, demographics, and lack of pork in their diet rather than their differences?

Let's imagine a diverse situation we can celebrate:

You're at a party and you make eye contact with someone across the room. She gives a come hither look so you get an extra drink and walk across the room to talk with her. She's very short and you can't understand a word she says but the hostess informs you she's a Pygmy from the Twa tribe from a swamp in Botswana, doesn't drink alcohol, and is here for medical experiments. She's also a cannibal and wants to have you for dinner.
Now, with all that diversity to celebrate you'd think this would be a good thing but you still wonder if she likes the Giants.

Diversity = confusion

Why not concentrate on other peoples similarities rather than differences? Haven't we been concentrating on our differences (diversity) for far too long? And who is pushing this diversity agenda in the first place?

I'm not saying we shouldn't appreciate other cultures or lifestyles and understand the richness these differences provide to the world experience. We can all benefit from walking around in someone elses shoes but to celebrate diversity accentuates differences which only serves to separate us more from a true coming together for humanity.

Rather than focus on obvious differences like color, language or the size of their ass, why not focus on the fact that you both like beer and take it from there?

If you talk to someone you don't know, you might break the ice by saying something you can both respond to, like the weather. Face it, the weather is something we ALL have in common and it serves as a basis for understanding. From there they might talk about the blue skies of Botswana or the chemtrails causing respiratory problems and how their weather experiments using orgone energy is helping to end the drought, and how her ox tail soup is to die for.

But that's not what diversity is all about. The celebration of diversity, that happens to be the buzzword of our times, is just anther way of saying Affirmative Action on steroids which includes not only race and gender but every area of culture not consistent with traditional white American ivy league culture. It's just another attempt to eliminate the middle class using reverse discrimination with a nice sounding name that makes you unAmerican if you disagree.

A quick search of diversity on the internet brought me some interesting insights. Namely, no one contradicts it. I find it interesting that anyone diverse to diversity is a bad person but you're a good American if you embrace it.

This schizoid behavior isn't anything new. Look at The Patriot Act and you'll find nothing patriotic about it and Homeland Security, although it sounds like big dogs guarding your front door, actually consider YOU a threat.

Diversity is nothing more than the age old tactic of divide and conquer to keep the bottom feeders fighting each other rather than the bastards everyone knows is pulling the strings. Race doesn't work anymore so the powers that be need to find something else to define one group from another.

Why don't we just shed our differences, concentrate on our similarities and take the bastards out!