Why do people think it's good to be "color-blind"?

It's an outdated expression that stays around because I think most people just interpret it to mean that we shouldn't pre-judge anyone based on their racial background.

And you're right, of course we should learn from each others' diverse backgrounds and show some basic sensitivity to people from different cultures...that doesn't mean surrendering our own cultural values, but just treating each other with some respect: No need to break out my iPhone and crack open a Miller Lite while sitting at the dinner table of an Amish family, for instance. I have every RIGHT to do something like that, but it's better to take the classy, high road most of the time....sort of how like none of my black friends finds it necessary to talk about what a crappy dancer I am. ;-)

I think you are right. Being "color blind" in that sense is the same as being uninterested in everyone you meet. I think the culprit is not the fact that we have many superficial differences but rather that we think we know something about a person because of their differences. Humans begin forming concepts at a very early age, as soon as language begins to develop toward the end of our second year. A child might say "dawg" for every animal he sees, but eventually he will come to have a different concept for each different animal. However knowing that an animal is a dog only tells us a small amount about the animal. Does he bite? is he freindly? is he afraid of people? These are things I can only discover as I get to know that particular dog.

We cannot help but form concepts based on our limited experiences, but if we never challenge these concepts, they will remain impoverished and not enable me to think more accurately about the world around me. These concepts are a form of "prejudice" that we all carry about a whole lot of things . . . and people. I won't try avocado because it is green and slimy, not because I don't like it but because I assume I will not like it. This is the danger inherent in prejudice. If I am afraid of every Mexican person I see, how can I ever make freinds with even one Mexican person?

Human diversity is truly like a garden with differing flowers, as long as we avoid categorizing the flowers into good, better, best, we can celebrate and enjoy these cultural and geographical differences.

(Revelation 7:9-10) 9 After these things I saw, and, look! a great crowd, which no man was able to number, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes; and there were palm branches in their hands. 10 And they keep on crying with a loud voice, saying: “Salvation [we owe] to our God, who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb.”

But who are these people? A little further on it says; "(Revelation 7:14) . . .These are the ones that come out of the great tribulation. . .This great tribulation is what the world is very near interring into right now. So this means that there is already a crowd of people "out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues" in existence. Between these people there is no talk of this question because we speak a pure language. There is not only a void of any thought of your question in these people, these people would die for each other. (Zephaniah 3:9) 9 For then I shall give to peoples the change to a pure language, in order for them all to call upon the name of Jehovah, in order to serve him shoulder to shoulder.’

You can meet these people at your local Kingdom Hall. Very nice people to be around. Color or race does not compute there, we are all brothers and sisters

I think society will survive, just fine. What exactly does valuing multi-ethnicity even mean?, or is it just a soundbite, I have black people who have married into my family and my cousin was married to a Muslim, they seem to feel the same emotions and feelings and share the same common values as the rest of us. I wouldn't put a funny hat or accent on, just to ingraciate myself to them.

You seem to be coming from the right place, but we should be sharing the things we have in common, because those are the things that make us equal.

that wouldn't be natural for us to be "color blind". instead, we should recognize and embrace our differences.

If we were all "color blind," how would we know who to vote for?!