I 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 dive

I 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.