All this talk of Diversity and Multiculturalism. Many companies are going all out in their commitment to this.
Lets look at the history of diversity and multiculturalism here…
Ask the Native American Indians how that worked out for them.
Not sure where you’re headed with this. Having several Native Alaskan friends that have embraced diversity and multiculturalism by marrying outside of their “tribe” or marrying into black, Pilipino and white families; they will universally say that it has been good for their families. It’s actually a conversation we have often. They enjoy being westernized and all the benefits that come with it, but with the unique flair of their own history and culture. Just like my European ancestors enjoy the benefits of American life with some flavor of the old country.
I would argue that the lack of diversity and a mono-culture of reservation life is holding many American Indians back.
America used to be called a melting pot. It was, and it worked. People brought with them the culture and traditions of their home country, but strived to embrace and assimilate into the American society. Multiculturalism is nowhere close and ultimately will not work. It divides and separates and is only pushed by those that dislike America.
Marrying a different ethnicity is not multiculturalism. Multiculturalism manifests its self as people of ethnicity’s congregating in communities together. Much like the reservation you mentioned or a China town, Korea town, or whole communities of Muslims. Many of these communities do not embrace or assimilate into the country. They simply immigrate to America and continue to live like they never left their home countries. Well aside from benefiting from the safety nets the state and federal government provide them.
This^^^
The “melting pot” was the combining of many cultural influences to create a fine stew. It wasn’t perfect, and some "ingredients"were unfortunately left out much of the time. Multiculturalism in theory would be the same process. In practice it is an attempt to “refine” the stew back into individual components and have the “onions” compete with the “carrots” for a place at the table.
Don’t even get me started on rez life. Most dastardly deed we ever pulled on the indians.
Laughs in Miami Cuban.
We’re patriotic as hell, have proudly served this country, and hold onto our old traditions too.
As a son of Cuban Immigrants, in a mixed race marriage with a biracial child. Your message flies like a lead balloon.
Cubans are very well assimilated and embraced American culture. So you’re clearly not what I’m talking about. You’re the melting pot not multiculturalism.
except when it comes to guns !
The Economist: Growing Diversity of Gun Owners Is ‘Bad for Gun-Control Advocates’
According to The Economist, a study by of Northeastern University shows that of the millions of first time buyers between January 2019 and April 2021, “half were female, a fifth black and a fifth Hispanic.”
Moreover, The Economist noted that “the share of black adults who joined the gun-owning ranks, 5.3%, was more than twice that of white adults.”
I worked in South Florida and had many great Cuban friends and I loved their culture and many of their old fashion ways. It was warming to say the least. Calle Ocho and the whole deal, Cuban Coffee don’t get me started.
PB
I get what you are saying. I still don’t understand how that works with Native Americans as the OP is alluding to.
Based upon the history of these discussions from “new guys”, let’s not. Pretty sure we all know what we know.
Calle Ocho has changed… Rey’s Pizza is no longer 24 hours a day. 
Todays history lesson:
The Indians lived in North America for some 20,000 years.
The Europeans came here and brought multiculturalism and diversity.
Millions of Indians were killed through wars and disease.
We took mostly the entire country from them, and force marched many of them away from their ancestral lands and relocated them far away.
Now most of them live on reservations.
Ask the Native American Indians how Multiculturalism and Diversity worked out for them.
This is a better direction than the thread starter post. I do not know much about the Cubans who settled here and its good to learn new things.
Andy
Better yet, ask the ones who’ve left the reservation how they feel about tribal matters and why they left. Hint, it’s not because of the white man.
I’m not really following the conversation, but I saw something about cultural misappropriation and some chef.
You literally can’t culturally missapropriate in the US, almost by definition. Complaints that someone take a foreign dish and not keeping it pure to the original is crazy. That is what Americans do. We take and make it our own.
Let’s face it, multiculturalism and diversity are today primarily addressing two specific groups: Blacks and illegal Hispanics. In the case of the former we’re supposed to accept certain levels of crime (murders, robbery, rioting, assaults, looting, “snitches get stitches”, etc.) because it’s not their fault; in the latter case it’s non-assimilating Central Americans who continue to speak their language and think they’re still living in Honduras or El Salvador. Multiculturalism as it is presented today is NOT about the American Indian/Italian/Slovak/Asian/Cuban/Puerto Rican/Ukrainian/etc. communities. It is about those two specific groups mentioned above and making excuses for them while allowing for severe chastisement if you dare question the narrative. I just did.
Remember last year that “wave” of anti-Asian violence? It was sublimely insinuated that Whitey was responsible, 'cause after all they do ALL the “hate crimes”. But a closer look tells a FAR different tale as to the perps of the vast majority of that violence (hint: it wasn’t Jethro or Cleetus).
You nailed it spot on. I hope no one gets their feelings hurt by this truth.
As far as I know, no Okie’s have driven to New York City to throw a Chinese lady under a Subway.
None of this is really “new”. Cinco de Mayo was used by hispanic activists to try to drive a wedge between hispanics and whites. Trying to encourage celebration of a latino victory over “white invaders” in the hispanic community.
Cinco de Mayo is now more popular in America than it is in Mexico. Hell most Mexicans outside Puebla don’t even know what the hell CdM is about (a victory by Mexicans against the French invasion of Mexico, though Napoleon III did take over Mexico for a time). Not that Americans know either. Most confuse it with Mexican independence day (diez y seis de Septiembre). Americans have “appropriated” it. Totally backfired on La Raza. I think this and other similar events gave rise to the calls against “cultural appropriation”.
Bah, it’s all a cover. They want to encourage the destruction of American society. Split it apart, pit one group against another, in pursuit of a Marxist authoritarian state. Just one more front in a very large battle.