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[quote=Anonymous]OP, you state that diversity is bad for groups as a whole.   Where are these studies?  Everything I see shows that diversity is good, like this one:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-makes-us-smarter/

But to try to genuinely answer your question, I have found there are two basic types of people in this world:

1)  Those who feel like they belong to a group because the group is all the same.   They feel safety and acceptance because everyone is identical.  Same religious group, same teen girl hairstyle, same football team, same college, same job, etc.

2)  And those who feel like they belong to a group because the group is completely diverse, and "anyone" can belong.  They feel safety in the diversity because it allows them to be them.  That could mean purple hair, piercings, atheism, Muslim convert, transgender, nerd, whatever.

I'm #2.  When I was 20, I moved from a #1 small town with a monolithic culture (OMG a Jewish person moved in!!!!!) to a medium-sized city with myriad sub-cultures.   I could be a goth chick one day, and a professional woman the next.

So for those selfish reasons, I appreciate diversity.  The basic diversity I craved at 20 has, now that I'm much older, morphed into a much richer, elaborate diversity now, with different ethnic backgrounds, languages, art, ideas, values, etc.

And my life is much better for it.   I am a minority in my neighborhood in Montgomery County.  I married a person from a different country (who is also a minority in our neighborhood), with a different language, and a different religion.   I get to live the exposure to different worlds every single day of my life.     I really feel sorry for people who don't get this experience.
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