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The heart of diversity
How can diversity have any meaning, if diversity of thought is rejected? How can diversity in people’s external worlds be of any value, if diversity in their inner worlds is banished? The former is superficial while the latter is essential (both literally and figuratively). Our inner worlds are our most intimate parts. How can one…
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Diversity of thought
A person voiced that “this generation is all about diversity, except diversity of thought”. This is such an important statement. No diversity matters if there is no diversity of thought, because it’s by thought that we perceive, discern, categorize and come to an understanding of them and anything else. Allowing the very existence of that…
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Assimilation
I recently wrote about assimilation. I would like to clarify something. Assimilation doesn’t mean that different cultures, traditions and norms can never be practiced within a society that prefers a specific form of these things. It also doesn’t mean that we cannot have healthy debate about which aspects of cultures are good or bad, cross-culturally.…
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National integrity
Diversity and multiculturalism presumes that all cultures are good or equally good, when they aren’t, depending on which frame of reference one starts from. Some cultures or cultural aspects are a matter of taste and personal (in this case national) inclinations, while others are bad on a moral, universal or human level for example. It’s…
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Virtues
Virtues such as inclusion, representation, diversity etcetera, are good, but they exist in relation to other virtues as well. It is wrong to take specific virtues and give them blanket unlimited virtuousness that override all others. It is like baking a cake and following a recipe, where all ingredients represents a virtue. Each different virtue…
The Searcher Who Wants to Give 