Do you think that the key to accepting diversity is frequent exposure?

[thegreenyogi]

[abc3643]

This is a good question and the answer is Yes.

Remember this because it will serve you well in life both in understanding human nature and animal nature...

FEAR IS BORN OF IGNORANCE.

I am happy to see that I am not first person who realizes this. From Google AI:

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"Fear is born from ignorance" is a philosophical concept suggesting that fear stems from a lack of understanding or knowledge about the unknown. Often attributed to thinkers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Seneca, and Marie Curie, this perspective holds that replacing ignorance with comprehension and curiosity can dismantle terror.

Key Aspects of the Concept:

• Source of Fear: Fear frequently originates from misconception, lack of information, or not understanding a situation, person, or concept, such as life or death.
• The Antidote: Knowledge and deep understanding serve as "light" that dispels the shadows of fear.
• The Cycle: Ignorance creates fear, which can lead to hatred, and eventually, violence, making the pursuit of knowledge crucial for peace.
• The Unknown: Fear often arises from what we do not know, making it a natural reaction to uncertainty.

This viewpoint encourages analyzing what causes fear rather than fleeing from it, suggesting that understanding removes the power of the unknown.

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Put in other terms but more specific to your question...

People put other people into two groups: US and THEM.

US is the people who you are familiar with.

THEM is everybody else.

However, in life, the more you become familiar with someone (or group of people) who is currently in your THEM group, the more that will gradually move to your US group all because you have more familiarity with them - eliminating prejudices and bigotries and recognizing commonalities.

Here's a thought experiment...

Consider Billy Joe Jim Bob is a KKK "Grand Dragon" leader. He detests "nïggers".

Consider Malcolm Y, a Black Panther leader who equally hates "crackers" (White people) for their oppression of Blacks.

Needless to say, Billy Joe Jim Bob and Malcolm Y are not sending Christmas cards to each other.

One day, a group of aliens decides that they want to learn about human nature and hatred, so they fly their UFO and beam up Billy Joe Jim Bob (BJJB) and Malcolm Y (MY). On board the ship, BJJB and MY are beamed directly into a lighted padded room with no apparent doorway or windows. (They don't know it, but they are being observed by the aliens...)

Now, of course, BJJB and MY are not exactly comfortable being with each other, but they are also scared shitless because they don't know what happened to them but they both saw the UFO that was right above them before beaming them up.

What do you think will happen? Will they engage in violence with each other? Maybe but likely because of the stress of the situation. However, the only thing familiar to them is each other. BJJB and MY both instantly become member of each other's US. Forced to be in the room with each other, they likely would try to figure out what's going to happen or what they can do. But, they become increasingly familiar with each other and, likely, if they are together for a long time with the aliens, they might even become friends despite their initial mutual bigotries and friends.

And this is an example of my answer to your question. "Accepting diversity" - I hate bullshit liberal terms and I am a liberal-leaning person - does happen with "frequent exposure".

As you get older, you will appreciate this more because you will witness how the culture evolves because of this... In short, people are initially apprehensive about changes but, as the changes become increasingly embedded in the culture, then they cease to become "changes" and are then a full-fledged part of the culture with general "acceptance".

[Wodens_Apprentice]

No you absolute out of touch psychopath. We should dump all of the immigrants outside your house & force you to live with them.

[abc3643]

@Wodens_Apprentice Normally, I might put in the effort for a suitable retort, but, given you are a racist idiot, I can't be bothered.

And, to help you with your reading skills, I said nothing about immigrants, did I?

[Wodens_Apprentice]

@abc3643 Fine I'll be more reasonable. How is fear an instinct that should be rejected as ignorance? If your ancestors never felt fear you'd have been wiped out by another tribe.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

Like as an English person I think it's just for me to fear Islamic cultures judging by how they like to treat out women & girls. Where I live they chopped a girl up & put her in their takeaways Kebab meat.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

There's nothing wrong with rejecting Muslims and Islam either, although I previously focused on Atheists and Polytheists. Muslims have no rights, especially Muslim women. They are treated like dogs and practically kept on a leash. They can't even leave their house without their husband's permission. I'll never understand why liberals support Islam, since Islam is a radical cult which oppresses women more than any other cult in the history of the world. Also, if Sharia Law were implemented, they literally castrate and stone homosexuals to death, but libtards don't understand that implies libtards would be stoned to death by Islamists if islamists ever got the upper hand.

Your belief that "everyone should be accepted" is quickly falling apart, isn't it?

Not that I'm saying we should accept homosexuals either, because homosexuals are mentally defective and should be institutionalized and treated for their mental defect. They shouldn't' be encouraged to be mentally defective the way the USA presently encourages them to be mentally defective. That's another libtard lie.

You see there? It's called "Discernment", the property of knowing right from wrong, which libtards lack.

[Wodens_Apprentice]

@SeekerOfTruth007 I'm a pagan so you wouldn't like that

[Lliam]

Exposure yes. I don't know if frequent exposure is necessary.
Also, positive experiences will result in positive attitudes while negative experience will have the opposite effect.

When I think about examples, my mind is overwhelmed by all the positive interactions I have had with blacks, Asians, Latinos, Middle Easterners, Jews, Muslims and all kinds of people. I couldn't begin to list all the examples from books, music, TV and film when I was young, to the many, many real life interactions I have experienced.

"Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime” - Mark Twain.

After 100 years of racial segregation, racism was so ingrained in American culture that desegregation laws were absolutely necessary to integrate blacks into society. Once racial discrimination was illegal, tremendous progress was made over the ensuing 35 or 40 years until Democrats during the Obama administration started using racism as a political weapon to inspire divisiveness and hatred. Then BLM got up and running and some people started acting like slavery ended yesterday, segregation still existed, white people are all racist, blacks are still oppressed and owed restitution.
That is NOT the way to get respect or sympathy.

In the past, Latin Americans came here to find jobs. They were beneficial to our economy. Then Biden not only opened up the southern border but gave incentives of free housing, medical, driver's licenses and money to illegal aliens. All kinds of people came flooding in, including criminals, gang members and free loaders.
That created fear and resentment among citizens.

Then Trump came in with a mandate to close the border and address the immigration problems that Biden had created. He also adopted the Israeli/Zionist narrative that Muslims are terrorists, which is Israel's justification for murdering indigenous people in Palestine and the region in order to steal their land.
Trump's policies appeal to xenophobes in our country.

So here we are, instead of going after criminals and free loaders, ICE is hunting down and deporting peaceful, hard working Latin Americans and Muslims. And those who criticize Israel are criminalized.

We are living in sad times when, instead of understanding the richness and value of other cultures, we are sinking to a level of racism and xenophobia that hasn't existed for 50 years.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

You're a liar. lol. Half those groups you just mention want to kill one another off the face of the Earth, but you're calling it positive interaction with them?

You're a damned liar.

[Lliam]

@SeekerOfTruth007. You are projecting your own attitude. You are no seeker of truth. You are just provincial, ignorant and full of fear and hate.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

No I'm not. It's a fact those groups all want to kill one another. It's why they are literally non-stop threatening one another with extinction and nuclear weapons.

[emeraldsaphire]

So I might be reading this wrong, but I feel like you are asking; "If we had more immigration or more non white people would the amount of racism go down?"

And well so far we've been doing that, and the opposite is happening. The Far right is coming to power all over Europe. Heck we just saw an election in the UK where the Reformed party took huge wins. I don't consider Reformed to be a far right party, but they are certainly further to the right then Labour or the Torys

Overall I think diversity when forced or when it happens to fast, breeds racism.

[CaptainSmartass]

That election was only to local councils. It wasn't a real election (a "Genital Election")

[emeraldsaphire]

@CaptainSmartass I'd argue local elections are more important because they affect things more directly, but ignoring that it still shows that reformed has momentum. If reformed can keep that energy still has to be seen, general elections have bigger budgets, more attention, and campaigning on a bigger scale, but I think it would be funny if Nigel Farage became the next prime minister.

[Amy10223]

Not in the case of my neighbor. We live in a community which has a large Muslim population--much to her chagrin. Makes comments that make me think she isn't crazy about them, or anyone who has a second language (she once mistook Indian neighbors for Mexican). She won't go to Mexico (because of the "wall problem" but likes Mexican food and will go to those restaurants. She is moving in a few years, and I think it's because she isn't crazy about the Muslims in the area (we live next to a huge mosque).

[msc545]

I have Muslim neighbors who also seem to have a number of black and Mexican relatives. They have a huge family and are some of the nicest, sweetest people I've ever met. I'm extremely lucky to have such great neighbors.

[Amy10223]

@msc545 That’s a normal reaction from someone who is open minded and accepting of other cultures. My neighbors are all nice. It’s very safe, and it seems to be a closely knit neighborhood. The only people who seem to have problems are the ones who dislike the culture differences, like this neighbor.

[BCRanger10]

No. The key to accepting diversity is precisely that. Accepting diversity. This includes diversity of thought and opinion. The problem is that too many people who drone on and on about "diversity this" and "diversity that" are often the least accepting, the least diverse, and the least tolerant. They make "diversity" an ideology, a destination rather than a journey. I can accept THAT a decision has been made. That does not mean that I accept or approve the decision itself. And to assume bigotry, hatred, or whatever else the bad thing may be when one disagrees stops the discussion in its tracks and sends true diversity out the window.

Very often, I think that the "diversity" in question only works one way, in that they want guys like me to accept, approve, and bless their thoughts, opinions, practices, decisions, lifestyles, whatever it may be, while also claiming that there are no moral facts, that there is no objective moral reality.

Plus, something else one ought to consider is that exposure can often have the exact opposite of the intended effect, hence all the movies that have come out over the years with blatant feminist, LGBT, or otherwise left-wing messages and themes that have bombed massively at the theaters, or likewise the shows on TV.

I wrote an article here a few years ago on this very subject, and it was called The Tolerance Myth. I'll link it here. I might word a few things differently today, but what I said then still holds true now.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

No. Accepting "Diversity" is stupid.

If people's beliefs are wrong they are wrong, and you should accept neither them nor their beliefs.

Example:

Hindus are polytheists. Polytheism is easy to prove wrong, because it is not ontologically possible for there to be more than one First Cause of reality, therefore there cannot be more than one God. Therefore, you should not accept polytheists and their lies.

That argument works as follows:

God as we understand him is the First Cause.

God cannot create another God truly equal to himself, because the second God could never be the First Cause and could never be Past Eternal. Moreover, if there were somehow two co-equal God's, neither of them would be Almighty. It produces a contradiction.

I'm so sick of multi-culturalism's lies. Monotheism will always disagree with polytheism and will always disagree with Atheism, and both of those groups are going to find out they are dead wrong in the long term.

[NathanDavis]

more than "accepting" diversity, one has to NOT only experience it but also... BENEFIT from it

not all exposure is good, that is very true... and not all experiences are good ones either

it is already evident that in situations, places and settings in which the best of "two worlds" different cultures, and "different people" are able to both share differences but also abide by common practices within the same community things can end up being really good and even great...

but if you're just exposed and then forced and cornered to confront opposites... we all have seen how that goes... and how it never ends in anything good

diversity should be nurtured and then embraced... not imposed to just be accepted

[OneViewpoint]

I do. It's easier to hate the nameless faceless other. It's a lot harder to hate people you've worked alongside, shared recreation with, shared dinners and holidays with, or who have helped you out.

That's one aspect of military service no one ever thinks about. You get kids from all socioeconomic / racial backgrounds and geographic locations, inner city, rural areas, suburbia, all being thrown together and screamed at by a drill instructor, pushed to their physical and mental limits, and challenged to survive the experience. These kids would normally never run into each other. It breaks down prejudices pretty fast for most of them when they are living together 24X7 in close quarters. Kids realize hey, he's just like me.

[Zack-Bann]

I think it’s opposite actually.
The continuous forced exposure to diversity is what keeps people pushing against it
People don’t like being told what to think.


If you visit a non-diverse country as someone who’s different from the locals you’ll be met with curiosity and interest
They will feed you their food and wait to see if you enjoy it or not.
That’s human nature.


What’s unnatural how diverse societies today handle their differences

[Cidknee]

The unnatural way of the modern day liberal. We could all live without them.

[Friendlybro79]

It's definitely a big part of it. Some people that aren't exposed to diverse cultures or people from different places, can just inherently be accepting of others or not. So it kind of depends on the person.

However, it makes it much easier to be accepting when your neighbors are very different than you. It becomes easier to be like oh, they care about the same things, love their family, enjoy going out, etc. The only thing that's different is possibly their religious beliefs, their cooking, and skin color. This allows you to see them as human and not some kind of caricature that media or truly racist people make others out to be.

If you live in a diverse neighborhood, you should get to know your neighbors because it can be quite fun to learn more about other people's traditions and their food lol.. The food can be the best part that brings everyone together!

[molonski2]

I think it is , when you are constantly around a diverse range of people , generally you find everyone has a contribution and are quite okey..

One thing I will say for Thailand they accept diversity with no question , all just are as they are..

It's different when it's forced upon you , so when it's just there it's all okey.

[NaultD]

Speaking for myself I got more worldly by being a student ambassador for the "People To People" program originally established by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1956.

The slow role for usa into the world wars was isolationist population. So this program was to have students learn about the world by traveling.

[FreyaRed]

Generally people who are exposed to diversity don't like diversity. It's a false imagination and wish think of a perfect world that ends often with cognitive dissonance and shock when those people indoctrinated with false ideology of equality meat real diversity.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Frequent exposure sounds like a rather dull idea to me, when accepting diversity is the goal.

It sounds dull because frequent exposure doesn't talk about what people experience, it doesn't talk about how they perceive diversity, it doesn't talk about how they conceive diversity acceptance.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

So it sounds like an idea coming from a politician managing pieces on the board, instead of something well-thought

[Miristheiss]

Ah. You mean on western countries due to out of control immigration policies? Instead of just a little immigration... they are on par to take over countries from their original populations in the future.

Do not see people demanding China and Japan and Saudi Arabia and to import millions and millio s and millions of foreigners and different religions and value systems.

This is a benefit to the countries?

[findacure4wokeness]

Diversity needed to be forced for a reason. No westerners wanted it for thier countries or believed that anything good would come from it even though there are some brain washed westerners now that have been bullied into accepting it and sometimes into believing it's a good thing.

Diversity will destroy any successfully civilization by watering down a winning formula until it is replaced by people that can not build or maintain a first world country.

Diversity divides people.

[Cidknee]

I have never had any problem becoming friends with other groups and races. The second and third grade I had different race best friends. The buzz I'm the air was all about - shit, that thing when black kids and white kids were put together in school? I can't remember and I'm sleepy.

[Cidknee]

Segregation

[arizonasunshine]

If it happens organically, it’s fine. But anything the government touches turns into a hot steaming pile of shit.

[Cidknee]

You are correct, sir!

[Snakeyes7]

No, the key to accepting diversity is solace that everyone will be judged by the same rules. However, we haven't used that definition, the actual definition, in decades. Now it means compensating some for struggles they never faced and penalizing other for atrocities they have never committed, the parameters are purely based on generational and collective guilt.

[Anonymous]

Yes living in multicultural country is very filling 🌎🌍 🌏🦘

Same goes for America - Europe - even places like the UAE getting more foreign expats and foreign workers. Etc.

The world is your oyster and the world is your melting pot for nations becoming multicultural nations 🌏🌍🌎☺️

[Opinion Owner]

Though I hope we can keep English 👀 I feel lazy to learn anything new that isn't English 🗣️🙂‍↕️

[Anonymous]

It probably helps. I mean I was born in state that is 85% white. I never even considered an interracial relationship till I was well into adulthood. But I also had no real exposure to other races. So all I had to go on is much of the stereotypes the television had fed me growing up.

[katiesmuff]

Forced diversity will always cause resentment and hate, but I think when it takes a natural change people relish it and things move smoothly along.

[FunkyMonkee]

I used to know a guy that did a lot of that exposing and they arrested him for it.

[slatyb]

It definitely helps. People who live in cities and are exposed to people of different backgrounds tend to be more tolerant.

[KostasKouvalis]

No. The key is for certain groups to assimilate and stop perpetuating negative stereotypes. Even so, societies that want to remain homogenous, have every right to do so.

[strateguy632]

No because public school is diverse. Therefore jobs must be purely merit based not diverse.

[ironsteelbirade]

Probably, unless it's bad people. Like if you put a bunch of drill rappers around a person everyday they'd probably hate black people.

[RavVid]

It does to a degree but there is some diversity I never will accept.

[DonaldDarko]

No because people are tribal. Diversity is just a bad idea.

[Twalli]

Frequent exposure without preconceived notions. I remember a racist shooter at a black church had a moment of doubt with his plan when the black people at that church were all nice to him.

[Anonymous]

The first key to accepting diversity is an explanation of why diversity in inherently better under all circumstances.

[exitseven]

No, that has the opposite effect. People do not like to be forced into anything.

[Still-alive]

Thats one of it. another would be actually having diverse friends or even in the family. its normalized because frankly it is normal.

[Mike_Hum]

Odd that "diversity" needs to be forced instead of being natural.

[TonyMetal___86]

Knowledge and rising to a higher level of consciousness

[msc545]

I think the key to it is frequent positive exposure.

[Godihateyou]

The opposite. The only people that are ok with diversity are people that are safe in segregation

[lilBigPotato]

I think there's some truth to it.

[Anonymous]

Accepting diversity is most stupid thing I have ever thought that something letftist produce. And this make them most stupid people on the planet!!

[Shiprex]

It needs education as well.

[Alex-Snow]

I think for some people that could work!

[In_Trance]

No it doesn't work that way

[RedInnocent69]

That’s one way

[Mado108]

Yes definitely!

[Agape93]

Nope

[Pterodon]

Nope