Diversity Does Not Exist?!

Maybe it's time to admit the obvious. We don't really care about diversity all that much in America, even though we talk about it a great deal. Maybe somewhere in this country there is a truly diverse neighborhood in which a black Pentecostal minister lives next to a white anti-globalization activist, who lives next to an Asian short-order cook, who lives next to a professional golfer, who lives next to a postmodern-literature professor and a cardiovascular surgeon. But I have never been to or heard of that neighborhood. Instead, what I have seen all around the country is people making strenuous efforts to group themselves with people who are basically like themselves. [more]

The Article bothers me - more comentary coming after I've thought about it a bit . . .

Commentary Update
It's no secret that I desperately want to move out of suffocating suburbia.
I SAY it is because I want more diversity, but the truth is I want to be around people who are more like me!! (Not in an ethnic sense, but in a values way (The Cultural Creatives). That's what I love most about taking classes with Arts Admin. folks - - I get to be around the kid of people who think and value the same stuff I do (Trees, The Arts, Stories, NPR, great discussions, cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate . . . ).
It's an uncomfortable realization.
To truly value diversity - I guess I'd have to stay put in yuppie-ville - - YIKES!!