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>After all, why diversity is good for the society overall is a tricky question to answer. Indeed. There are plenty of cultures seem to value "homogeneity" over

• Technically 6y ago
  This sounds like it's true, but I haven't seen convincing evidence that "western culture" is particularly concerned with "diversity" at all (outside of PR culture), or that other such "homogenous" cultures have significantly less tolerance for "diversity". If someone is arguing for diversity in good faith they can explain exactly what kind of diversity they're arguing for and why. Japan, for instance, appears culturally homogenous only until you compare culture across economic classes; only a very shallow definition of diversity would fail to capture this. In fact, that's true for many societies. The quirk of america is that we've internalized the diversity of the working class as uniquely american, class be damned, even if that's trivially a false characterization of the upper class. American media is not careful about how they use the word, and does not call out substance-less uses of it, so it's become an easy target for mocking lack of substance in political and cultural discussions.