[lit-ideas] Diversity Questions
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:06:42 -0400
While on the subject of national languages, I wanted to ask about
diversity. For the past thirty years at least, everyone here has
been bombarded with a simple, optimistic proposition:
Diversity is strength.
What empirical evidence do we have to support that proposition? Is
it just an act of faith? Do we have actual evidence that diversity
is strength or is just a leap of intuition? Do we merely HOPE that
diversity is strength?
Furthermore, assuming diversity IS strength, where does the path of
encouraging this diversity lead? America takes people from all over
the world in the name of diversity, gets them to accept capitalist
monoculture and thrive in it...and do what?
Become more homogeneous?
Isn't "accepting diversity" a way of taming diversity so as to
destroy it? Doesn't the "accepting diversity" route ultimately lead
to uniformity?
Asking questions without an agenda,
Eric
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