Have your experienced cultural diversity in your community, your neighbourhood,

Mylot is the best place to learn anything new…even I learnt about the Balut from here in mylot though like you, I too was completely grossed out … I mean I just could never imagine myself gulping one down LOL As for cultural diversity, the next best place was school…we had girls from different states of India and we got a glimpse into their diverse lives, languages, food (the best part), festivals … it was really fun. Now of course, yes we have people from different places living nearby but somehow we don’t interact with each other that much. Maybe the times are like this…we are too preoccupied with our own lives to socialize with others.

YEs i come from a country where it is multiracial multireligion and multi culture.It hard to live as a minority in a coutry where the religion, language and culture is not yours. However, after many many years of trial and error and comprise, the nation is able to live with each other.However, certain groups and bad apples always try to disrupt this peace for money,politics and other unknown reasons maybe some 3rd hand power who want to plunder the country.

not really carpediem I had to come here to our wonderful mylot to expereience the wonderful diveristy of cultures and I learn new things every day here. I have come to love and appreciate much more my friendships from all over the globe. We are all different yet we are all alike in that we love our families, we love and fight, and learn how to handle our children, our pay checks, our lives and we help each other here all the time and we do have a warmth and fellowship here on mylot that other sites just do not have. I love to mylot and enjoy being here with my friends each day.

Oh yeah, America is a melting pot, and we all learn the difference from each other. We still learning other culture, and I have absolutely no discrimination against other people who has different culture of mine. We will respect them the way they are. We co - exist because we learn to respect others.

One thing I can say that was positive in my life is that I was blessed to have met so many people of different cultures. When I went to school in Pittsburgh I hung out with some guys from Trinidad. When I lived in Detroit I first met people from different parts of Africa. In Ann Arbor I taught at a community college and went to school and met students from India, one Indian lived in Uganda under Idi Amin. I worked at the Ann Arbor News and met people from the Phillipines, China, and Nigeria. When I went to Cedar Point, Babylon of the midwest, I met girls and guys from Poland, Tazmania, Ukraine, Romania, Thailand, Malaysis, Singapore, China, Columbia, Nicauragua (sp.), and Brazil. I enjoyed going to the American Thai restaurant and eating their "star" food for the first time. I had a great time learning a lot of things from them. And there were the comical moments such as the night at work when I offered to play the DVD of Polish American songs and the Polish girls almost killed me because they wanted to hear rock and roll. (Rock forever! ) I also learned some words in Polish and Thai, as well as tradition such as the "name" day in Poland. I also learned how the bathroom situations are different in Europe, so when I encountered women in the men's rest room and shower, I was very shocked.

Hi carp! Singapore is a multi-cultural country and yet all the past years, I have never really gotten to know people of other race or culture. Recently, I have gotten very close to an Indian lady who is my yoga classmate. We would have a chat every week after class. I think I have learnt quite a bit about local Indian culture from her. When I took up a Japanese course several years back, I have also met a good number of Japanese and there was also a lot of cultural exchange back then. I learnt that the Japanese are very organized people who emphasized a lot on details and precision, that's why their electronics industry is so strong. I believe we can learn a lot from other culture and sometimes we may be surprised at how similar our cultures are.

I think my neighborhood is pretty diverse. Perhaps not the most diverse in the world, but there are some differences. There are some neighborhoods around here that are pretty much either one race or another, without any diversion. We have people of many races, cultures, religions, whatever you want. Perhaps lifestyles as well for all I know, but that's not really anything that I looked too closely into and that's their business as well. Still, it is a pretty decent place to live. Perhaps not the most diverse in the world but its not closed and there is not any comfority. So that's a good thing. It would be pretty boring if everyone liked the same things or had the same beliefs. Life would not be as exciting, that is for sure. Still, diversity adds flavor to life. That is one fact that I think many would agree with. Not most unfortunately, but that's life for you.

I have been very lucky to have travelled all over the world and met people from different countries and it is simply great to be able to know that whereever you go, whatever your color and religion, people around the world have same emotions and thoughts but in different languages. I simple loved the varied options in food. The filipino style raw fish and sticky rice with sweet pork curry. Arabic style Shorma with lots of pickles. Chinese noodles with chopsuey soup. Italian pizzas and Spanish Salsa and not to forget American Fish & Chips

Well, i stay in India and to talk about cultural diversity i stay in a co-operative housing society which consists of people who speak 21 different languages and are of various different religions with dressing styles quite different from mine, yet we stay in peace and harmony without any problem.