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A congressman from Iowa does not think so and parrots the words of the KKK and several other white supremacy groups. Of course Trump has made it fashionable to be joined with those groups. So do you believe what they do?
As a military man all my life I look there for an answer. What happens is we take diverse people from all over, cities, farms, suburbanites, rich, poor, all races and religions, all shapes and sizes, from different cultures and different traditions and beliefs and probably a lot more differences.
Then we break them down, teach them they are no longer individuals from the ghetto or the farm or the south or north. But that we are one team. Together we succeed, alone means failure. We come to rely on one another and don't give a hoot where anyone came from, what they did prior to entering the military, what religion or no religion, race, color or creed. We have become one.
How this equates to civilian life, I'm not sure. But I do think diversity is probably good, as long as in that diversity everyone views themselves as Americans first and foremost, then whatever after that. It's when that diversity takes precedence over being an American that diversity could be a bad thing.
I think we see that in Washington today, our elected officials are too busy being Republicans and Democrats first and foremost than being Americans. Doing what is good for their party first, loyalty to party over country. That is in my opinion very dangerous. The same holds true for the religious, races, backgrounds and cultures. I think being or when we were the melting pot of the world is the way to go. Not stopping being that melting pot. When we stop being American, become or retain being black, Irish, Italian, Asian, Baptist, Catholic, atheist, northerner, southerner, Republican, Democrat and so on and so on first and foremost, this nation is in trouble.
The melting pot is in my opinion the way to go, take the best of whatever diverse group has to offer, incorporate it and discard the rest and move on.