Politically Correct Vacations

Ah, the media nanny state. Now they're going to help us take culturally diverse vacations.

In today's USA Weekend, there was a piece containing the Gannett PC travelogue. "This year's spring travel report began with a question: What does America see when it looks in the mirror? The answer, confirmed by a glance around our offices, was a variety of things. It all depends whose mirror it is and who's looking."

Well, that's not much of a surprise in the Gannett newsroom. We know that Gannett imposes strict quotas on its hiring practices, as well as its journalists. Now we apparently need quotas for our vactions.

Obviously, there is nothing wrong with true diversity. The coming together of diverse cultures has made our country great. But diversity vacations? Doesn't that seem a little bit forced?

Does the "Hmong Community of St. Paul," Minnesota really want a bunch of fat white people wandering around its picnics? Are Jewish people welcome in "Dearborn, Mich.: Arab-American capital?"

I suppose some would consider me a racist, but I can assure you I am not. I do, though, enjoy meeting people and enjoying different cultures at random, not through some pre-set plan of cultural diversity.

Plus, I think there is something really unhappy and ironic about the 'diversity' as proposed by the media elites. The newspaper wants us to separate ourselves into groups, and then go mingle with other groups. "Hello, we're from Group Z. Where is the community of Group X people?" I am in a group; you are an other.

What happened to the idea that we're a melting pot? Group identities disentangle us from the great mass that is American society. They divide us. I do not believe that is a good thing, whatever you call it.