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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You all understand that "diversity" has little to do with skin tone and just about everything to do with socioeconomics?

I laugh when rich people pat themselves on the back that their schools and neighborhood are soooo diverse with the rainbow of nationalities. True diversity is interacting with people from different economic and educational backgrounds-which really does not mean much in this area, unless you sit down to talk with your housecleaner while she scrubs your floors.[/quote]

To the extent that you are saying that ONLY socioeconomic diversity is "true" diversity, I disagree.  Black, white, Latino, Asian - they may all earn the same, but their backgrounds, including their socioeconomic backgrounds, may be vastly different.  There is much to appreciate and learn from racial diversity, diversity of origin (immigrant/non-immigrant), religious diversity, etc., etc., as well as from current socioeconomic diversity.   The idea that there is only the one, true Diversity is preachy and misguided.[/quote]

puhlease.

I attended all girls Madeira boarding school.  The skin was diverse, but there was NOTHING diverse about the students other than what country they vacationed at during breaks.
Oh sure, I got to witness traditional Chinese and Indian dance and ate some "diverse" foods, but when you are in the same socioeconomic class, things are pretty much the same...same opportunities in life, same top tier colleges and universities, and same amounts of relative extravagance.  Oh yea, there was some diversity in country club membership…ya know congressional, Washington, or River Bend-so yea, you’re right-it was quite diverse.
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To the PP - perhaps you are correct that the 1% have more in common with one another than with anyone else; I'll defer to your superior experience on that point.  But the fact that you did not learn anything from interacting with people of other races and from other countries doesn't mean that *nobody* does.[/quote]

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