What we need is not more information, but more sensitivity and thought . Because critical reflection is so important, we can hardly accomplish an education in diversity by self-consciously responding to the external command that we all take up diversity as the issue of the day. Philosophy is the love of wisdom. Discourse about meaning and value is inevitably permeated by ambiguity and uncertainty. This, perennially the case, is even more explicitly the case in our present situation.
Cultural differences are no longer what simply define our community against the rest of the world.
They have become internal to the community itself. It is, of course, true that diverse groups have very often lived in close physical proximity to one another. What is different today is that the outside actively impinges upon the inside. The new family altar springs electronically to life with visual images that undermine any sense of community identity. On the face of it, these images might appear to represent an emergent global culture that constitutes a generous patchwork of already existent cultures.