I remember an old and really bad joke from way back when:
-Do you know what it would be if everyone drove a pink car?
-No, what?
-A Pink car-nation.
Yeah, no...it wasn't very funny then and its not very funny now. But it does highlight an obvious and important fact: If we all drove the same car; if we all liked the same music; if we all ate the same food; if we all held to the same philosophy, or practiced the same religion...it would be a pretty boring and not-so-fun world.
I also remember an old saw from my days as a philosophy student at Indiana Central College: "If everything is different, even if it is the same, it is different. If everything is the same, even if it is different, it is the same."
You are you. I am me. We are the same in many ways. But we are not the same in many other ways. If we both drove the same car, it would not make us the same. And if you and I were the only two people in this country, and if we both drove pink cars, it would not be a pink car-nation; it would be a nation composed of two people driving pink cars...there is a difference.
Diversity. Its a good thing. Its a fun thing. And, really, truth-be-told, its the only thing about us that makes us the same.
You get my meaning, right?
(BTW: My Honda is red, not pink!)
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