Diversity and Multiculturalism

Diversity and Multiculturalism – Standard Meaning: The practice or quality of including or involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc. On its face this appears to be a fair way of doing things. But today a large number of people believe that diversity should be supported for its own sake. Diversity is just a word. It simply implies a difference between one group and another. It shouldn’t be a blind goal. Should we support the inclusion of a group that holds ideas and practices which are destructive to the larger and established group? In the same sense Multiculturalism is just a word. It simply implies acceptance of a different culture. But again, what if this other culture is the antithesis of our own? What if this other culture carries with it the seeds of destruction of our own established culture?