We're not becoming more diverse, what is largely happening is that communications and transport technologies have made geography irrelevant. Now your cultural o

We're not becoming more diverse, what is largely happening is that communications and transport technologies have made geography irrelevant. Now your cultural opposite may live next door, rather than in another city or country. This has led to the degradation of real community; you could equally argue that transport is the issue. The point is that if you enable people to maintain cultural identies across geographical boundaries, you will cause the breakdown of local solidarity. To argue that we must therefore develop some sort of bland global monoculture is as terrifying as it is depressing.