Diversity is overrated. That's been my experience. Where I live, there seems to be an emphasis on diversity for the sake of being diverse. To me, tolerance is much more important than diversity. Diversity is necessary to practice tolerance, so it's important. But in reality, just creating a diverse situation because we think it's the right thing to do -- although it may be done with the best of intentions (see: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions") -- doesn't seem to serve the greater good. And I'm all about "greater good." So I think diversity is hyped.
Before I posted this comment, I thought I'd look up the definitions of both words just to be perfectly clear in my own head with my opinions:
Tolerance: The capacity for or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others.
Diversity: The fact or quality of being diverse; difference.
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- Armen
- I've had an interesting life so far. At age 11 I found out that the Turkish word chakmak translates to Flintstone in English. Lucky me! I've played in many bands, one of them was nominated for a Grammy (Shadowfax), and another that appeared on the Tonight Show fronted by Oscar De La Hoya, the boxer (yeah, he had a band for two weeks). I've played in biker bars and watched a biker bust through the doors on his Harley and start doing "donuts" on the dance floor! I've seen screaming matches between psychotic people in the music business over nothing important, my ex-girlfriend became a nun, experienced the death of a band mate, married a woman I met online who has a brother named Armen Chakmakjian, auctioned my soul on eBay to raise money to finish an CD, found out after golfing left-handed for 19 years that I play better right-handed, and today...today I received a phone call out of the blue from Ralph Rieckermann, the bassist for the Scorpions. He asked me to record some lounge-style piano music as a "favor" to one of HIS friends for a hundred bucks. Scorpions? Lounge? Favor? WTF? It was then that I realized THIS is a good day to start a blog.
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Diversity is overrated
I think prejudice was created by the other primates. Think about it. Most of the primates are hairy and eat fruit, leaves and bugs. Here comes one of our mutant ancestors, and they go chase after a rabbit or something and kill it and eat it. Then because their hair is falling out, that take the fur and wrap it on their bald heads. The rest of the primates probably looked at this and said "oh no there goes the neighborhood" They probably climbed back up their trees and started screeching. So our mutant ancestor walks off with his fur on his head dejected and finds some cave and a female mutant and starts a meat eating stick swinging ghetto.
If chimps had only practiced tolerance all those millenia ago, we'd be still sticking sticks into the ground trying to get pull bugs out and global warming could reasonably be blamed on a meteor or something crashing into the earth...
"meat eating stick swinging ghetto"...you're killing me! lol
So when did hats come into fashion?
The Vikings brought them to England. The etymology of the word in Old English via probably old Norse Khad meaning covering. probably the primates banished the carnivorous cudgel armed cousins to the cold north and they had they khads with them for several millenia. Then they stuck horns in them and invaded england. after a century or two they were beaten back by Alfred of Wessex who rallied the un-khad angles and sassenachs and drove the viking back into the sea. The vikings moved so fast they left their horned khads for the anglo-saxons who picked them up and looked at them curiously and having the head covering gene placed them on their heads and formed lodges. khornkhads eventually got truncated to konhaeds then hats. it must be really late cause I can only come up with this stuff when i'm totally wiped out
Hence,konhaeds made their way to France, where they passed an audition for Saturday Night Live, changed the spelling to Coneheads because it was hipper, and history was made!b
The circle is now complete!
I need a dictionary.
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