I’m eating sunflower seeds in a park on this balmy November morning. I happen to snack on a. Pack of sunflower seeds. You see, Asian people like to eat sunflower seeds roasted in their shell. The cracking of the shell and extraction of the seed inside is quite the art and sport that no one would imagine it to be. I was told once that some people cracked so many that the have an indentation in their front teeth where they habitually inserted the seed to be cracked.

There is also a similar urban myth about people, Chinese people, who eat so much fish that they can insert fish chunks in one side of their moth, swallow the meat and spit out bones from the other side of the mouth in continuous non-stop chunks.

Anyways, for me, I am lucky. I sit in this park and discard the shells of sunflower seed onto this neatly pruned community park lawn. Passersby smile gently and greet me good morning. as an immigrant, I love being able to be myself, a Chinese descendent with all my advantages and faults, and just be myself and nobody cares a bit. People love you for supplying the diversity and bringing this wonderful food here and sharing with everyone.

Now we’re I in a similar, country owned, park in China and spit sunflower seed shells, I’d suffer formal fines and probably an epic flood of nice little communist cadres from school field trips telling me off for moral decrepitude.

They do that not by politic indoctrination. Well they do it because of that, but also because when they don’t, they would drown in sunflower seed shell—like literally, it’s easily more voluminous than London’s gum problem—per capita.

So but in America, not only do I not suffer fines, which I am sure there are some for this act, there is no need to. The last time I did this, nothing happened. I searched for my shells and they’ve disappeared. Either eaten by Mother Earth or swept up my street sweepers after being blowing onto the street. Everybody is perfectly happy.

This kind of means that our diversity and inclusion politics is NOT just a welcome-all-that’s-good-or-different policy. In reality, and in practical causality, that it is a welcome-all-different-despite-bad policy. The idea of inclusivity not only espouses that different good come of different people, but also that different bad doing different damage to the society come from different people. But because of diversity of bad, there is no centrally focused damage to society.

So as long as our society has a way to amplify the good and contain the bad. For example publicize how hardworking, kind and tolerant Chinese people are, and don’t broadcast that some Chinese people eat dogs and some of us spit sun flower seeds. That the new society learns and adopts the good and tolerates those that harbor a few bad habits. The society survives due to the limited damage and is better for it.

Nobody drowned in my sunflower seed shells.

The same can be said of down proportioning population diversity. Those people of whom we have plenty, we can discard some of them to reduce their negative effects and suffer the loss of their contributions.

In the large average, as long as we modulate and amplify effectively, diversification is a great thing for general society today.