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This article is long and pointlessly avoids saying things in clear text. Your list: Gay Jewish man in New York, an Englishman in London, a 4th generation zaini
by maxklein 17y ago
This article is long and pointlessly avoids saying things in clear text. Your list:
Gay Jewish man in New York, an Englishman in London, a 4th generation zainichi kankokujin (ethnically Korean who was born in Japan), and an Irish Catholic dogmatist
Could be as diverse as anything, but they could also be very similar. I actually think they are very similar, because in foreign countries, the collaboration that usually falls in place is similar to that.
Real diversity happens when age, gender, culture barriers are crossed. English, New Yorker, Irish and even an Australian man of roughly the same age have very similar though processes, because they consume the same media.
It also points at a fundamental misunderstanding - intellectual diversity does not mean bringing in people that think the same as you, but have lived in slightly different neighbourhoods. Intellectual diversity actually starts when you find it difficult to understand the other persons point of view. When the cultural difference is so large that there is a difficulty communicating, then you have created an intellectually diverse place.
These oh-let-me-pat-myself-on-the-back posts are boring and offer exactly the same arguments as the other two posts. If you want to write a blog post where two other blog posts have been written, then make an effort to actually offer a viewpoint that is really unique to the situation.