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I didn't understand the bit about being fortunate to live in a multilingual society Here in India we have so many languages, I don't consider myself to be more
by fareesh 8y ago
I didn't understand the bit about being fortunate to live in a multilingual society
Here in India we have so many languages, I don't consider myself to be more fortunate than people in other societies because of this fact. If anything, I see it as a potentially massive inconvenience. It has been the root of so much conflict between communities. Entire states have been split into two because of language issues.
Feels like diversity has an exaggerated sense of value in the west. Probably not a politically correct thing to say given the obsession with race.
- cirgue 8y agoI don’t think that most people would take issue with the idea that diversity with no basis for common experience/understanding is a bad thing. The point of diversity as a social value in the West is the belief that by explicitly incentivizing more interaction between people of different backgrounds, barriers to communication erode and eventually disappear, or at least are minimal enough that everyone can participate in a society as equals. Edit: more succinctly, the emphasis on diversity in the West is intended to eventually solve the very real problem that you identify.