If the world in the future enters a stage of extreme globalization where large amounts of people move across the earth; that might in the long run dilute ethnic diversity. It would make people look more the same in terms of skin color, faces, body types and so on.
Should there be limits to this?
2006-10-24 16:26:26 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Yes, it would be a good thing. The most stark contrast is Russia and the USA in the past. In the USA people used to assimilate to reduce ethnic diversity, and USA was a melting pot, with a few enclaves of specific ethnicities, but the children would try to attain assimilation into the mainstream. After all, there was a good reason they left their home country.
In the old Russia, there were(and are) a great many pockets of ethnicity, and the country was so large, there was little incentive to assimilate. Even if one moved to a large city, the train system was good enought to go back to the lands of ones nativity, and keep those ties. Although Russia is one country, there are many civil wars going on at any time. Chechnya is just the tip of the iceberg.
I don't think there need to be limits to reducing cultural diversity. People will always tend to find things to identify others, and consequently form groups based on some criteria. If everyone was roughly the same height, shape and coloration, people would still find distinctions.
Differences of cultures do help to realize new ways of viewing things, and advance the society as a whole, but the important thing is to adhere to those cultural mores which are the most productive, and tolerate differences and see if there is something of value which had been previously unknown.
People fear a vanilla existence because it is unknown, but they underestimate the human ability to adapt and change, and seek out and discover new perspectives.
2006-10-24 16:38:01 · answer #1 · answered by Ragnarok 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Not really. I don't think there should be limits, but I think that ethnic groups will still continue to stick to themselves even though the world is "globalizing".
2006-10-24 16:27:50 · answer #2 · answered by joshooog 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Eventually, yes I think that would happen.
But it wouldn't for about another 100 years.
And you would have to take into account same ethic types will still reproduce.
2006-10-24 16:28:15 · answer #3 · answered by Kylie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it's bad because if all those people eat mcdonald's everyday it will weigh down the earth causing it to orbit into another galaxie.
2006-10-24 16:30:40 · answer #4 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes,that will probably be unavoidable eventually.
2006-10-24 16:29:44 · answer #5 · answered by That one guy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No....and who would make these "limits"? We won't be around to see it anyway.
2006-10-24 16:29:21 · answer #6 · answered by rere 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like it, but I bet they'll be some other sort of injustices.
2006-10-24 16:28:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Arent we experiencing that allready?
2006-10-24 16:27:47 · answer #8 · answered by twysty 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It would be good.
2006-10-24 17:24:54 · answer #9 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good
2006-10-24 18:49:12 · answer #10 · answered by haha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋