Integration

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Integration is worth striving for. It is worth working for. The city can change attitudes by leading by example. The city's administration needs to hire the best person for the job, regardless of race, sex or religion. Hiring by quota backfires. I agree that diversity and creativity from a mix of people is wonderful.
We need to make all cultural and racial groups feel included in our city by eliminating arbitrary definitions of proper behavior that simply reflect the dominant group's norms. If a behavior is going to be raised to a standard for all in society, that pre-eminence needs to be justified in an objective manner. 
Language is a prime example of this. We need to communicate effectively, and to do so we need a shared language. Standard English is that shared language. This is not better than other dialects of English, or even other languages, but we simply need to agree on something.
If speakers of standard English expect others to learn to speak like us, we need to be open to learning other dialects and languages. This does not necessarily impact government policies, but could be important on the bully pulpit.