DIVERSITY MATTERS!

It is beneficial to have representation from a broad range of cultural origins and etnnic backgrounds in curricula, museums, and professions. In the hospital where my primary care physician works there are men and women of all possible backgrounds in almost every kind of position, for instance. Cantonese, Hakka, Hunanese, and Mandarin speakers. There was also a subcontinental -- she may still be there -- and I've even heard rumours of a Shanghainese surgeon there too. So the care there is excellent!

Same goes for the people on the streets in that neighborhood: I've noticed Italian, German, French, Dutch, and Haitian Creole being spoken alongside the common tongue (Cantonese), as well as several dialects (Mandarin, Shanghainese, Hailam, Hakka, Hokkien). And also something third-worldish that sounded like 'wugga wugga', plus Slavic, and Hipster.

We all benefit from this incredible spectrum.


Of course, most of the tourists get in the way and ask stupid questions (it takes up to seven folks from Alabama and Iowa to buy ONE can of soda), but if people don't ask questions, how on earth are they supposed to learn?

Besides, everything comes with a fried egg if you just ask.

As an older white male (the same gender and race as Shakespeare), I welcome inclusion! Admittedly my bookshelves are filled with the writings of my kind of people, but I feel it's just a matter of time before there is far greater representation there by literateurs from Africa, South America, Australia, and Wugga Wugga than at present. Even Alabama and Iowa.

Still, there are times when I feel that the best thing would be to build a long barrier along the frontiers to keep the Turks, Mongols, Dzungarian Tatars, Tibetans, and folks from Alabama, Iowa, and Wugga Wugga out. And personally I don't really care that seven of you must pool your hard-earned Rubles to purchase one single can of an overly sugared soft drink, or are scared that a sweet biscuit you can't identify might poison every generation of your visiting family including morbidly obese Aunt Ellie who only speaks in a Tennessee brogue.

There are already too many people like her.



What we absolutely do not need are any more vegans, gluten-phobes, or whiny terrorist sympathisers from Berkeley or Britain. Or people with piercings or tattoos.
There are limits, and we do have standards.


Absolutely no Walloons.
Ever.



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