(05-11-2021 10:12 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(05-11-2021 09:42 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  I think there is great value in diversity and this comes from a variety of sources... including but not exclusive or even definitively to race....

This is exactly the argument I have been making, when I say things like "who brings more diversity, the white boy from Croatia or the 25th black girl from Bellaire?" I think the leftists focus too much on race/sex as the only indicators of diversity. Would the white kid whose parents were missionaries in Peru bring more diversity of experience to the student body than a black girl from Kinkaid? How about the kid whose parents were in the military and who had lived in Norway, Germany, and Japan?

I found the Rice student body to be very diverse in the 60's, even though we were all white(or whitish). Apparently liberals cannot conceive of any diversity other than racial.

At least on this board, your first paragraph has been discussed and has met no opposition. I believe that all of us agree here about diversity being more than simply race.

I believe you that you had (in many aspects) a diverse student body at Rice in the 60s. I imagine you had kids from rich families and poor families, from rural and urban areas, etc. Obviously you didn't have racial diversity which, IMO, is important and beneficial in general.

But I'm sure everybody here conceives of other types of diversity as would all liberals that I know.