The biggest social mistake the United States ever made was busting up the ethnic neighborhoods. It lines up with electing any president a second term and not letting Patton run all the way to Russia to shave that stupid mustache off of Joe Stalin's square donkey ass face. Don't get me started.
I think Ethnicity is important and should be celebrated. If you were actually able to walk through all of the Chicago suburbs or New York's Burroughs without being killed you would have seen Dagos on one corner with Micks and Kikes on the other. A Pollock would be eating a noodle with some filling in it and arguing with the Chinks about whether it is a wonton or a perogi. The Limeys would be yelling it is a dumpling and the Wogs would be call it something unpronounceable with lots of n's and p's in the spelling. It is a noodle with filling and everyone loves them. Where else are you going to find names with ten syllables and one vowel. And when will we ever see names written in symbols that look like pick-up-sticks.
In the states we have diversity weeks and months. I do not think we need black history month or American Indian diversity training. Everyone worries about stereotypes and profiles. I went to a Black History Month dinner sponsored by the Diversity Council, one of three white dudes there (diversity?) and they served Chicken and Greens. It was like Martin Luther King Day at the Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church social. I had a great time and it lived up to all of the stereotypes. Diversity was never mentioned. It would have been much better to have a Hebrew speaker and served Pork Pie and Lentil soup for lunch. That would have been diversity that amounted to something.
This country does not need diversity or to celebrate our differences, we need to unify and become Americans again, not nationalistic Nazis or socialized communists. We need to become Americans that revel in the differences of each other and insist the differences are minute. Sharing cultural differences cannot be mandated any more than cross dressing at a Skin-head mixer will be tolerated but it can be encouraged. I am not making a very good case for diversity but that does not mean I am wrong.
I think Ethnicity is important and should be celebrated. If you were actually able to walk through all of the Chicago suburbs or New York's Burroughs without being killed you would have seen Dagos on one corner with Micks and Kikes on the other. A Pollock would be eating a noodle with some filling in it and arguing with the Chinks about whether it is a wonton or a perogi. The Limeys would be yelling it is a dumpling and the Wogs would be call it something unpronounceable with lots of n's and p's in the spelling. It is a noodle with filling and everyone loves them. Where else are you going to find names with ten syllables and one vowel. And when will we ever see names written in symbols that look like pick-up-sticks.
In the states we have diversity weeks and months. I do not think we need black history month or American Indian diversity training. Everyone worries about stereotypes and profiles. I went to a Black History Month dinner sponsored by the Diversity Council, one of three white dudes there (diversity?) and they served Chicken and Greens. It was like Martin Luther King Day at the Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church social. I had a great time and it lived up to all of the stereotypes. Diversity was never mentioned. It would have been much better to have a Hebrew speaker and served Pork Pie and Lentil soup for lunch. That would have been diversity that amounted to something.
This country does not need diversity or to celebrate our differences, we need to unify and become Americans again, not nationalistic Nazis or socialized communists. We need to become Americans that revel in the differences of each other and insist the differences are minute. Sharing cultural differences cannot be mandated any more than cross dressing at a Skin-head mixer will be tolerated but it can be encouraged. I am not making a very good case for diversity but that does not mean I am wrong.
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