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We pay a lot of attention to keeping minorities happy. Should we pay more attention to bringing people into the fold and making sure they aren't minorities but part of something bigger that we can all subscribe to?
| Yes | 24 | |
| No | 43 | |
| Maybe | 13 |
From my experience, there will have to be compromise and I don't know of that could go so well.
For example, in my area, a few years ago, we experienced a huge influx of Chaldeans. In their culture, women are inferiors and not allowed to have social relationships with men. The Chaldean parents came to the school that many of my fellow church goers work at and demanded that their daughters sit apart from the males. This isn't a commonly accepted practice here and the teachers basically had to tell them "our country, our rules". It was difficult because they don't accept female authority.
In another area that I grew up in, many hispanics moved in and in their culture, everyone cared for each other's children, no question. Understandably, the citizen tenants became angry that the children were running loose unsupervised and their parents were angry that the tenants did.not keep an eye on them.
Cultures contradict and beliefs contradict and it is not an easy task to decide who is right and who is wrong and who should and shouldn't give up their values for the good of the whole. And that's the problem. Everyone knows that they are right, many have a valid argument for it too. If we incorporated the beliefs of every minority, we would be forcing ourselves to live by standards that we despise, and if we incorporated the minority we would harm them in that manner as well.
Would the world be better without minorities? I will not speculate. Diversity can be a wonderful thing, but at the same time, I believe that there can be a common ground made that we can all stand on without harming eah other, but that would require EVERYONE to let go of their preconceived notions, of their prejudiced and closed mindedness and to educate themselves to do so and be open to discussion without sensitivity and without having to be the only person willing to compromise.
live and let live! dont rape , steal, kill or molest children dont brake laws and respect each other.
No no no no no no!
Everyone would have to be identical, and I can't think of anything more boring. Not everybody wants to "subscribe" to the majority, and they shouldn't have to. This is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard. Ever.
Seriously, just no!
For some reason, your poll reminds me of the book "Brave New World".
Everyone is "bioengineered" and individuality is seen as a dangerous notion against society,etc. You should read the book, but be warned it's somewhat "disturbing".
By no means. Have you ever read books such as Anthem (Ayn Rand), Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury), or The Giver (Louis Lowry)? Things just plain turn to shit when you eliminate differences. You know, first it is no private school. Then it is no luxury items. Then no cars. No flowers/decorations. No holidays. No tradition. No pets. No internet. No color. No twins. No electricity. No freedom. Then it gets crazy.
'Minorities' aren't always 'minorities' by chance, sometimes it's by choice. Are you talking about ethnic minorities, cultural minorities, political minorities etc.?
To answer your basic question, life in theory would be easier if everybody was like you. But that's an impossibility, variety is inevitable, differences are inevitable, not everybody can ever be 'brought into the fold'.
Ultimately minorities are part of something bigger - the human race.
I wasn't trolling specifically. I was looking for an angle, though, and you got me on that. But I didn't do it for self-serving reasons.
it's just the way it was written, seems like you're trying to get a few people butthurt here. You know, like the post about invading canada or that guy who was scared of black people... This kind of stuff usually sets of an inflamed argument here.
So if you weren't doing that on purpose, I'll reclaim the "troll" title from you, lol.
However, now I'm fascinated -what were your reasons?
I just wanted to provoke debate but I had to be careful about the way I said things. If you look at the broad spread of answers between yes, no, and maybe, it's obvious that people aren't sure. And I was interested in that.
This site is not the ideal place for this kind of experiment. Try yahoo or ..there was something else like that. There the "masses" are statistically predicatable. This community is a bunch of weirdos, and actually.. I don't claim to be normal either. So sometimes there are polls that get very surprising reactions and people vote as radomnly as it gets. of course, it means nothing in "the real world" :)
Way to many people don't seem to understand what a "troll" is but use the term willy nilly like a bunch of fucking spastics. I've seen no more than three maybe four people on IIN who can even use the term correctly.
I'll repeat. I wasn't trolling. In any sense of the word. How you worked out what my definition of trolling is from me NOT trolling is beyond me.
Like, think of an animal that's not a dog. What did you think of? A cat? Sorry. The answer was giraffe.
"Way to many people don't seem to understand what a "troll" is but use the term willy nilly like a bunch of fucking spastics. I've seen no more than three maybe four people on IIN who can even use the term correctly."
Where do i say YOU were trolling?
I wrote that because you were called a troll by somone else and i disagreed, but how are you so dumb you didn't even get that?
I think he was talking to me, but he was totally off again. so it doesn't really matter.
All I know is multiculturalism sucks. Mexicans are taking over my walmart.
They're like fucking locusts.
There are virtually the same number of white and black people in the world. Both are minorities. Why treat one of them differently?
Im black. Tell me why it would be better for the world to not have ME here. Explain in a fair, unbiased, logic way if you can because most racists don't seem to be able to. bare in mind you've never, ever met me yet you make a statement like that.
Racism is not unbiased, fair and rarely logical. I fear your question will remain unanswered.
Correct, I do not know you. But the fact of the matter is that Blacks are GENERALLY undesirable. You, as an individual, may be a rather decent person, but as an exception you do very little if anything to mitigate the reality of this rule.
Fact: if all Blacks were to disappear from this planet and be replaced by Whites, the world would drastically improve literally overnight. Sure, we may lose a handful of decent, productive Blacks like yourself in the process, but that is literally totally beside the point. This is not hate; this is fact.
Now a question for you, sir or ma'am: I'm assuming you're living in a Western country; with that said, would you be open to the prospect of moving to a heavily Black area such as sub-Saharan Africa? If your answer is no, please explain why.
WOW! Seriously, why the hell was this comment so poorly received?
You see, this proves that it's not possible to reason with "anti-racists." So forget it - screw all of you. If you people were attempting to have a decent, civilized conversation with me, you've failed miserably. This is just not worth my time. I'm out of here.
Bitches! >:P
No; you see, we don't want to argue with you because it's clear that you just want attention and a reaction out of people. There's no need for us to waste our time with you.
I think people find it difficult to not take it personally when someone says the world would be better if they didn't exist. Not much of a surprise really...