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"Diversity is good."

No.

Diversity has benefits and costs - it is neither good nor bad.

People, or groups of people in a democracy, need to decide what level of diversity they would like to pursue.

Personally, as someone who can live anywhere, I've chosen (and continue to choose) a very diverse place (the United States - specifically California).

I like living with people who invent jazz music and snowboarding and the Internet and I am willing to pay costs like some decreased degree of social cohesion and trust.

Other people, or groups, might have a different cost/benefit analysis and that is not wrong - nor is it wrong to pursue those aims democratically.




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