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In the publication,
“Portland State University: Rethinking our Financial Future: The Final Report of the Financial Futures TaskForce,”
the author(s) used a well-selected descriptor to identify the Portland cultural mind-set:
Discordant.
We are always looking for the source of disconnect between Portland Metro and Portland State. This word is insightful:
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Observe the OED of American English definition of this word: Discordant
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1. Disagreeing or incongruous;
2. Characterized by quarreling and conflict;
3. (Of sounds) harsh and jarring because of a lack of harmony
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In other words, Portland is identified here as a city without concord, divided up into disagreeing cliques at variance with one another. What is needed is a way to unite them.

Some meaningful synonyms for discordant are:
o Antagonistic, Antipathetic, Clashing, Contrarient, Dissonant,
o Incompatible, Incongruous, Inharmonious, Uncongenial, Unmixable
Diagnosis: Portland's cultural mind-set makes it one sick city.
In other words, an at-odds culture, instinctively adverse in nature, functioning under a veneer of false "friendliness."
Portland State needs to transcend these disparate factions (and rampant negativity) and find the ways and means of serving as a uniting positive influence.
Let knowledge indeed serve the city.
“Portland State University: Rethinking our Financial Future: The Final Report of the Financial Futures TaskForce,”
the author(s) used a well-selected descriptor to identify the Portland cultural mind-set:
Discordant.
We are always looking for the source of disconnect between Portland Metro and Portland State. This word is insightful:
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Observe the OED of American English definition of this word: Discordant
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1. Disagreeing or incongruous;
2. Characterized by quarreling and conflict;
3. (Of sounds) harsh and jarring because of a lack of harmony
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In other words, Portland is identified here as a city without concord, divided up into disagreeing cliques at variance with one another. What is needed is a way to unite them.

Some meaningful synonyms for discordant are:
o Antagonistic, Antipathetic, Clashing, Contrarient, Dissonant,
o Incompatible, Incongruous, Inharmonious, Uncongenial, Unmixable

In other words, an at-odds culture, instinctively adverse in nature, functioning under a veneer of false "friendliness."
Portland State needs to transcend these disparate factions (and rampant negativity) and find the ways and means of serving as a uniting positive influence.
