San Diego State University senior Emily Yavitch recently wrote “How SDSU Forces Diversity Down My Throat,” taking a look at all the mandated cultural diversity courses and how it distracts from learning she wants to do.

I think that the people who decided such classes are necessary were born in a time and place where diversity was not an automatic. Back then, it really would have been novel to meet somebody of a different skin color or religious belief. But for most students these days, it is nothing new. It is just a fact of life. I would bet on the fact that every student at SDSU has a Latino friend and could talk ad nauseum about DOMA.

Meanwhile, anecdotally at least, many students here probably can’t name the current Secretary of State or cite in what founding document the separation between the various offices of government was established.

Maybe that sort of knowledge is no longer important. Anything can be Google searched on the go.

Our unity as a nation is borne of our recognition that we share something greater than ourselves. But as knowledge of our collective history as Americans is being supplanted by diversity education, that bond weakens.

We see ourselves as an odd collection of mismatched races, religions, and sexual orientations. Sometimes those differences don’t mix. Ironically, the more we teach diversity, the less cohesive we become.

As a writer for The College Fix, her recent interview by Roger Hedgecock, a nationally syndicated conservative radio talk show host, on his San Diego-based television program “The Roger Hedgecock Show.”