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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many progressives associate diversity with a greater moral good over homogeneous, which they usually mean all-white as opposed to different races. You see the sneering here on DCUM towards areas that are too white or not diverse enough. While I certainly understand some people's desires to want to be in a diverse areas with many different races, including their own races, it is also an interesting moral psyche that has emerged in recent years and one I find both admirable - and limited - because it frequently reduces diversity to skin color and nothing else and ignores the enormous diversity of humanity within a general race.

Most of the world [i]is[/i] homogenous, whether an African nation or Asian nation or eastern / Northern Europe. In many of these countries, the homogenous nature is something they take pride in because it's a cultural pride rooted in a shared common heritage. There have been solid research, if unpopular, showing that greater homogeneity often comes with greater social trust and community spirit, while greater diversity is often the opposite. On the flip side, people who don't fit the homogenous nature of a country can often be marginalized. A political football, certainly, but it does show how politicized the word homogenous has become, used as a political tool by opposite forces. [/quote]
Much of the violence in Africa has been tied to countries that are not homogeneous.  Instead of organically developing, these nations were created by colonizers who either didn’t understand fully the ethnic, cultural, and tribal histories or didn’t care.  
Homogenous nations though don’t have to be unified.  The Korean nation although taking great pride in its incredible homogeny, fought a bloody civil war and remains as divided as ever even though both sides accept the Koreaness of the other.[/quote]

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