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Let’s just suffice it to say I don’t think you’ve even come close to making your case, and I heartily (although not surprisingly) disagree with your viewpoint. As such, we’re really going to have to agree to disagree, because at this point we seem to be spinning in circles.

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The idea that there are many different Americans, but at the end of the day, everyone is still an American IS what diversity-appreciating groups celebrate, isn’t it? Multiculturalism doesn’t “attack the idea of being American”… it makes sure we appreciate and understand differences while also noticing our commonalities enough not to treat a person like crap because of their skin color, or socio-economic status, or religion.

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Its opponents consider it an oppressive ideological re-education tactic, that actually injures the ability of organizations to attain their goals. It has been suggested that diversity training reinforces differences between individuals instead of concentrating on their commonalities, thus helping to further racialize the workplace and creating situations where people “tiptoe” around issues such as how to relate to people of different cultures as opposed to people learning to communicate with and truly understand each other.[3] It may also, according to law professor Gail Heriot, amount to a “rather blatant form of racial and sexual harassment”.[4]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_(politics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_(business)

Brooke, diversity can come in many forms. They are socio/political theorums. Do not force their implimentation or mandate their acceptance. Let individuals and groups decide for themselves if they want to practice them.

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Likewise there can be many different kinds of Americans, but at the end of the day, everyone is still an American. Political correctness, multiculturalism, diversity, reject this. They attack the idea of being American, IE western. All three do the following

“The formal meaning of “diversity,” “cultural equity,” “gorgeous mosaic” and so on is a society in which many different cultures will live together in perfect equality and peace (i.e., a society that has never existed and never will exist); the real meaning of these slogans is that the power of the existing mainstream society to determine its own destiny shall be drastically reduced while the power of other groups, formerly marginal or external to that society, will be increased. In other words the U.S. must, in the name of diversity, abandon its particularity while the very groups making that demand shall hold on to theirs.”

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My thought is, we ARE different. America is, and has always been, comprised of people of varying cultures (even when it was primarily differences in what European nation you hailed from, LOL). And it’s even more so today. I’m really not getting how can “diversity” go, when our nation, by virtue of the fact that we, or our ancestors, all came here from other nations, is quite diverse. And noticing or even celebrating our differences, doesn’t in any way invalidate what we all, as Americans, have in common – which is our nation.

The idea that we have to give up our cultural identities and become some homogeneous lump of humanity in order to be truly “American” is ludicrous.
Of course, I have a suspicion that idea of everyone needing to be the same, primarily applies to certain populations more than others. ;-)

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