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<p>Your post is retarded. I'll take a few of your points:</p>
<p>Religious observance is subjective, so thus it's irrelavant for diversity purposes. Yes it's also subjective that America is a more religious nation than say China?!?!? You fricking kidding me? Religiosity can be quantified (amount of service attendance, the religious scale Richard Dawkins supplies in "The God Delusion", acceptance of evolution or creationism, etc..). So it's all just subjective right? I guess it's subjective that the middle eastern muslim countries are somewhat religious right? How can you take your own argument seriously?</p>
<p>Heigh and weight: not really irrelavant to diversity. in fact many men make their decision based heavily on this (i.e. ASU). Additionally, college is a place where romantic relationships are common. So these physical characteristics are relavant for that type of social environment.</p>
<p>How heavy one drinks: Another huge question many people take into account when choosing a college. Different social cultures exist at every college and it's important that everyone feels welcome. Thus different, and diverse, social environments should be provided by the students, i.e. frat parties for drinkers and movie nights for teetotaler.</p>
<p>All political party affliation and viewpoints: This was your worst disagreement. You've got be kidding? One of the biggest points of diversocrats in the inclusion of different viewpoints. Who cares that it's not inherent? It's important to have at least a nominally diverse group of people who can introduce others to different perspectives. I honestly can't even continue arguing this.</p>
<p>I've never been honestly more flabergasted at a post on CC. Your post had no logical foudation. Here's the translation:</p>
<p>"Nah, uh."
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<p>Why are you getting all worked up? Can you not discuss reasonably this without flying off the handle with ad hominem attacks?</p>
<p>RELIGION:
I don't think you understood my argument, although I don't blame you since I didn't elaborate. By subjective, I meant that religion is not in innate characteristic of a person. It can be changed, converted, influenced, etc. Also, where does one draw the line between culture and religion. For example, scientific surveys show that between as high as 50% to 80% of the population of China are cultural adherents or even outright religious adherents of Buddhism.</p>
<p>HEIGHT & WEIGHT, OTHER BODY CHARACTERISTICS:
When I said they were irrelevant to diversity, I meant that they have a neutral impact on diversity because those are characteristics that are not selected for and therefore occur in more or less a random distribution.</p>
<p>DRINKING, SOCIAL:
Again, this has to do with identity. Certain colleges have a culture that promote drinking or various other social things. One of the reasons people apply to a college is the match they have to a college's social enviornment. This is a matter of a college's identity and culture and in this case, the applicants choose the college, not vice versa.</p>
<p>POLITICAL PARTIES/IDEOLOGY–
First, political party affiliation and ideology are subject to change based on life experiences, aging, education, etc. Second, colleges already have a wide array of ideological beliefs so diversity isn't an issue here. My point that majority of American college students was just an observation that there is automatic lopsidedness in representation of political beliefs in terms of proportions of the population at colleges.</p>