"Diverse Communitites"

I just love the way action groups and social welfare advocates in Vancouver refer to areas that have large populations of homeless, drug addicts and vagrants as "culturally diverse". It's become a mantra to describe the residents in the downtown east side for example. In these filthy crime ridden neighborhoods, we now not only have been forced to give the streets over to vagrants, dealers, addicts and hookers, but we are now being told that they actually bring personality to the areas????

i've been to slums in 3rd world countries, and many of those people live with more dignity than the "residents" in the downtown eastside, who spend their days in a state sponsored comatose, while all the social advocates around them do everything possible to avoid confronting their issues and tip toe around trying not to offend them by using terms like "Diverse communities".