Diversity: An Asset and Challenge in America

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In infinite ways, diversity is a major asset to the United States nation. A diverse society contributes to the progress of the economic development of the country. It creates an open mindset by the exposure to foreign ideas and people with different backgrounds, enabling the society to develop an open mind approach to life and business. Various People comprehend the word diversity differently. Diversity is both good and bad in abundant perspectives. When people bring up diversity it needs specific mentioning. There are three types of diversity categories; diversity in skin color and ethnicity, diversity of fundamental values, and diversity of viewpoint. The two types of diversity that live in today’s America that are destructive and terrible …show more content…

Skin color diversity does not help people of color; it hurts them at least as an assumption. Skin color superiority should not matter based on the color of one’s skin. Racial diversity is not a good thing unless people who are racially diverse are decent, and it is not a bad thing unless people who are racially diverse are indecent. Going as far as Martin Luther King, who said “I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character”, he was right because when anyone looked outside during the civil rights movement, it displayed black people being criticized by the color of their skin. Communist only know the skin color is all that really matters. The focus on skin color diversity makes people empty-headed and closed minded because any problem people have, they blame it on a skin color; blaming all the life problems on somebody …show more content…

“Putnam [claimed] the U. S [had] experienced a pronounced decline in "social capital". A term he helped popularize.” Social capital is trust, for example; leaving the door unlocked at night when one is about to go to bed, someone leaving their home for an errand and asking the neighbor to watch over the house. It all comes from shared values. In religious communities, there are not diverse values or skin color because they do not focus that type of diversity, only their shared beliefs. Everyone having the same goal of good fundamental values end up with freer, a better society, shared values, and a shared vision for a better nation. The common fundamental values everyone should not negatively approach are such things like free speech, free religion and of the press. Seeking the first two types of diversity as goals reveals real human suffering, and targeting people who oppose the other

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