Utah: mormon and non-mormon schools

Last time I was in SLC they had billboards saying Cosmopolitan, the popular magazine, was pornography. Why are they calling everything pornography?

Utah is perhaps the most beautiful state in America, I took about 15G of photos on my visit there. Some areas like the Badlands and the Salt Lake look like something from another planet. However, it is strange place, with lots of contradictions. Extreme lack of diversity, it's a good place to live if that's what you like. Downtown SLC (Temple Square) is absolutely clean and upscale, with no vagrants, but you go less than a mile away and there is a park with hundreds of homeless clustered together in a local park. How are the Mormons able to keep the homeless out of Temple Square and clustered in one area and why are some many homeless in a place where they are apparently not wanted? Most of Park City looks like Aspen, yet you go a couple miles out of town to the local supermarket and everyone is paying with food stamps (EBT Cards). It's also weird or perhaps cool to see 21 year old married couples with several kids. My goal was to do an interview with an FLDS family in Hildale. About a mile past the Hildale sign, I was pulled over by local law enforcement for no apparent reason, basically, he said he pulled me to ask if I need any help. He continued to follow me from a distance the whole time I was in Hildale. I kind of felt like I was in another country.

That's an interesting analysis...what's the Hispanic population like in SLC?

Inquiry minds want to know wrote:

That's an interesting analysis...what's the Hispanic population like in SLC?

Mormon.

Another data point:

I was raised in the PNW and attended BYU. Great school, great people, great education. Competitors at other Utah schools were classy. Had a great time running for the team. Wouldn't change it for anything. There was so much to do in Utah outdoors. However, I was excited to leave Utah for grad school in the Midwest. Why? Mostly because as a Mormon not raised in the mountain west, I felt like I didn't in fit into the Utah culture.

There's a difference between Mormons that live in Utah vs those that leave elsewhere. It strikes me very time I go back to visits siblings in the area. It feels a bit like cultural in-breeding; a lack of diversity in culture leaves everybody trying to hard to fit into a certain mold. Or those that can't or don't want to fit the mold go to other extreme, along with all the other "non-conformists". Hence the widespread tattoos and the apparent binary split between Mormon's and non-Mormons.

All this said, there are plenty of moderate folks in Utah too. Just like in politics, the extremes of the spectrum get all of the attention. Keep an open mind, and you'll find that the caricature painted on this message board is not completely accurate.

Thanks for taking the time to write that.

Would you complain about the extreme lack of diversity visiting various countries in Africa, Japan, Sweden, etc.

John Utah wrote:

Would you complain about the extreme lack of diversity visiting various countries in Africa, Japan, Sweden, etc.

technically, Africa has the most diversity from a DNA standpoint among any continent.

youtes wrote:

John Utah wrote:

Would you complain about the extreme lack of diversity visiting various countries in Africa, Japan, Sweden, etc.

technically, Africa has the most diversity from a DNA standpoint among any continent.

Africa is a continent with over one billion people. You are comparing a continent of over one billion people with part of a state with a pop of three million or whatever it is. Hello?

Also do some research and look at diversity levels within many of the countries of Africa. Or go there and tell me how you perceive the diversity.

Also, it’s silly to get all scientific and technical when talking about Africa? Yet when talking about Utah it’s just “everyone is white”.

Lastly, I like unity. Not sure why people hate unity. It’s not “divided we stand”.

John Utah wrote:

youtes wrote:

technically, Africa has the most diversity from a DNA standpoint among any continent.

Africa is a continent with over one billion people. You are comparing a continent of over one billion people with part of a state with a pop of three million or whatever it is. Hello?

Also do some research and look at diversity levels within many of the countries of Africa. Or go there and tell me how you perceive the diversity.

Also, it’s silly to get all scientific and technical when talking about Africa? Yet when talking about Utah it’s just “everyone is white”.

Lastly, I like unity. Not sure why people hate unity. It’s not “divided we stand”.

My mistake, I thought you were the one comparing the diversity of Africa to Utah.

Datum wrote:

All this said, there are plenty of moderate folks in Utah too. Just like in politics, the extremes of the spectrum get all of the attention. Keep an open mind, and you'll find that the caricature painted on this message board is not completely accurate.

Posted the Mormon.

The ONLY place with some diversity is downtown SLC. Go 20 minutes South in the valley and a non-Mormon would feel very alone.

Once again, the ones that have tried to convert me were very nice. My neighbors were very nice people.... Lots of nice people in SLC. Who leave you alone once they understand you aren't interested in their church.

youtes wrote:

John Utah wrote:

Africa is a continent with over one billion people. You are comparing a continent of over one billion people with part of a state with a pop of three million or whatever it is. Hello?

Also do some research and look at diversity levels within many of the countries of Africa. Or go there and tell me how you perceive the diversity.

Also, it’s silly to get all scientific and technical when talking about Africa? Yet when talking about Utah it’s just “everyone is white”.

Lastly, I like unity. Not sure why people hate unity. It’s not “divided we stand”.

My mistake, I thought you were the one comparing the diversity of Africa to Utah.

Yes, your mistake. I said countries in Africa.

Guess what your are going to see a lot of if you travel to Congo? Black people.

Yet you would likely never complain about lack of diversity as so many do in any predominantly white area in the USA. I’m pointing out the discrepancy.

So, why is most everyone bashing the Mormons? ????

Just Amazed wrote:

So, why is most everyone bashing the Mormons? ????

Confession: I'm a Mormon, but trolling Mormons on letsrun is way too fun. There are A LOT of Utah Mormons on here that take themselves a bit too seriously. Especially the guys who come on here trumping up Utah HS XC. They are the worst.

BTW I'm currently an EQ president (you momos know what that means), went on a mission, married in the temple, yada yada yada. Utah Mormons are the lowest of the low-hanging troll fruit.

Well then maybe you could answer that question about finding some of those more "frisky" Mormon girls? LOL.

Seriously though, considering the topic. On the web I have found that BYU was 99% Mormon, Snow JC is 90% Mormon, Utah State is 80% Mormon, and UofU is 50% Mormon concerning the student body.

I can't find anything on Weber State or Utah Valley. I am curious if these two schools would be roughly the same as the UofU or would they have a higher or lower percentage of student body who are Mormons.

BYU = clown college

So if BYU and other schools are Mormon, how can they participate in Sunday athletic events?

What ever happened to John Utah?

team Unruly Bush wrote:

What ever happened to John Utah?

I think he got engaged to his boyfriend and lived happily ever after.