Is America's diversity also a big liability?

[Joe the Liberal]

Do you believe that America's diversity can also be a big drawback to social progress?

In other words, do you think that the republicans/tea baggers would be less resistant to things like single payer health care or other good social safety net programs if those programs only went to benefit white people?

[mix]

1. No...teabagger nativism and racism are nt

[Donnachaidh]

2. teabaggers are led around by the nose by fox and hate radio

Luckily, there are far more sane people than that crowd. No, I don't think it's a liability.

[William Z. Foster]

3. of course not

A less diverse population would be easier to manipulate and control. That is why the right wingers try exclude or remove people of color.

[G_j]

4. huh?

a big liability for white supremacists.

that's about it

[Speck Tater]

5. Evolution selects in favor of traits that improve the survival of the group or tribe.

In the distant past xenophobia enhanced survival of the hunter/gatherer tribe and was favored by natural selection. We have outgrown the need for xenophobia, but we have not outgrown our genetic programming. It is sad, but it is also true that less diverse groups, tribes, clubs, communities, churches, etc. are more cohesive, and more stable.

Perhaps some day in the distant future the human race will outgrow that. But we haven't outgrown it yet.

Notice also, that when people move into an area dominated by a different culture they will resist assimilating into that culture, but will band together with others of their own kind in order to have that feeling of cohesiveness. You see in China towns and Korea towns, and Little Italy's, and Hmong neighborhoods, and in the cafeterias in integrated American high schools, and in English-speaking American expat Enclaves in European cities. You see it in Muslim neighborhoods in Denmark, Polish neighborhoods in Detroit, and Jewish neighborhoods in New York.

You see it when jocks gather at the sports bar to be with their own kind, and when farmers and cowboys gather at at the country western bar on route 96 north of town to share a beer and a line dance with their own kind. Human nature is to be more comfortable with "our own kind", and even though that is heinously politically incorrect, it is, just the same, a fact of nature that we are born with, and not something we have been taught.

(ed:typo)

[opihimoimoi]

6. 5 STAR ANSWER....Bravo..... :o)

Humanity stuck in the Evolutionary Flux

Despite all the wonders of advanced tools, cyber space, etc

our social skills are unable to prevent war. We are in constant conflict amongst ourselves...

The Tribal mentality can be addressed with intercultural philosophy/guidelines....how to achieve the best of the best...

[JCMach1]

7. The real is answer is BOTH

[JCMach1]

8. The real is answer is BOTH