Guest Post by Hardscrabble Farmer
Robert Putman’s Bowling Alone pretty much sums it all up. More diversity equals less cohesion. If we want diverse people from diverse cultures with diverse beliefs and mores, then we can have no expectation that our systems, traditions, behaviors and customs will have any more weight or priority than theirs.
Asians don’t mind crowding up into the personal space that would make most European-descended folks cringe, African folks have a volume control that pushes the top end while Northern European types barely speak above a whisper. The result is self-segregation and that’s all we see in America today, media and advertising images notwithstanding.
Quick story about the exact opposite experience.
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