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RWStanding
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Diversity and Globalisation

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Diversity and Globalisation
Cultural-racial diversity is a popular slogan. Usually in reference to how a country such as Britain is populated. The usual justification for whatever is happening rather than any philosophy.
It is tied up with globalisation, which tends to be seen in only one way – as a world of free or autonomous individuals.
In fact globalisation may simply be an acceptance that we live in on the Earth that technology has made quite small and close knit. It may be seen as a vast society, but one made up of communities rather than directly of individuals.
It is these communities that are the centres of unique cultures and which need to be protected if diversity is to survive.
Britain has many immigrant cultures, but it is a remote possibility that these can survive as such. What is actually happening is that cultures are mixing here and globally, and therefore diversity is being lost.
What is even more significant, is that the whole world today is in social chaos, and no rational order exists other than nationally. If there were globalised ‘law and order’ the result might be quite Putin-esque, a demagogue world order. Altruistic democracy, as against chaotic individualism, requires the national communities to survive and for them to be substantially autonomous cultural and environmental units.
The environment is in extreme danger, with global warming a large factor, but stable communities must be protected against mass or any population movements.
A folly that confuses the issue is that of dividing politically-ethically in only two wings – left and right – good and bad. Ethics is reduced to a world of individuals who are either nice or nasty.
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