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To: DanD who wrote (64581)	5/8/2008 11:26:09 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 543135

>>All the same ethnic groups are represented in significant numbers. They are just as "diverse". You are say greater population of certain groups means greater diversity, that is simply an untrue statement.<< Dan - Let's try this. I stand in the middle of a park in a major city. I hand a dollar to the first person I see. If I do that in New York City, arguably the most ethnically diverse city in New York, and then in Toronto, which is arguably the most ethnically diverse city in Canada, in which location am I more likely to have enriched someone who is not a white person of european descent? If I repeat that experiment a few times, in different parts of each city, and at different times, will I end up giving more dollars to minorities in Toronto or in New York? I think we both know that if I have achieved true randomness in my dollar distribution, I will have a far greater chance of finding recipients whose ethnic background is unlike mine in New York. And you could repeat that experiment in lots of places around both countries and get the same results, most likely. Having taken the long way to say this, here's the short way: To me, if you have a greater chance of running into a person whose ethnic background is different from your own in the US, then the US is a more "diverse" place. Even shorter, and going back to the original term: More people like each other = more homogeneous More people different from one another = less homogeneous Another good question would be, "So what?" Does it affect the cost of healthcare in the US, or the likelihood that one healthcare system would work here and not elsewhere? Probably not. - Allen