Something New to Consider?
by Brother B ~ October 12th, 2006. Filed under: Business, Cultural, Diversity, Education, Learning, Tipping Points.Harvard University’s Robert Putnam research on Diversity points to something obvious, people don’t trust one another. There are plenty of smart people out there trying desperately to understand why we are so afraid. Is it because something going to get us. Eventually it will. But in the mean time our fear allows us to be manipulated (just watch the evening news, cnn, fox etc.) and we cast a suspicious eye towards anyone that looks a little different.
Different factions have taken to Professor Putnam research as way to justify their stand on immigration and other hot political items to help increase our fear of each other.
I would like to see a study about a community that is diverse that does get along with one another. Lets make an effort to find things that work and learn from them. If we can’t find a community that is working lets make one.
Niall Ferguson’s “The War of the World“ with the subtitle “Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West” points towards events that happen at the beginning of the last century and the results is a wave of diversity heading west and north. It’s not stoppable but it need not be disastrous.
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