Talk:Cultural diversity

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weasel words
"By analogy with biodiversity, which is thought to be essential to the long-term survival of life on earth, it can be argued that cultural diversity may be vital for the long-term survival of humanity; and that the conservation of indigenous cultures may be as important to humankind as the conservation of species and ecosystems is to life in general." Salvor Hardin 05:35, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * So, what's wrong with that? Please re-word it so that it is acceptable to you, it rather than adding back the neutrality dispute notice.  Best regards,GrahamN 14:38, 6 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I can't think of any way of describing it without sounding POV against it or giving it more credibility then it deserves.74.38.99.188 19:31, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Old Fashioned
"Overpopulation, immigration and imperialism (of both the cultural and old-fashioned kind) are reasons that have been suggested to explain any such decline." The term "old fashioned" is very unspecific and not very encyclopedic. I have no idea what is meant there. A more proper, decisive, less colloquial term should be used in its place. JoeyETS 03:30, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Organiz(s)ation
Both spellings are acceptable, there was just an edit changing the z's to s's in this article. One is British English, one is American. What is the policy for English dialect in Wikipedia? JoeyETS 00:05, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

It's at Manual of Style: "Each article should have uniform spelling and not a haphazard mix of different spellings, which can be jarring to the reader. ... If an article is predominantly written in one type of English, aim to conform to that type rather than provoke conflict by changing to another." This article does not currently use American spellings. GrahamN 21:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I'm used to using Canadian English, so I'm always flip-flopping back and forth between British and American spellings, the link should be useful. Good edit on the old-fashioned wording as well. JoeyETS 23:14, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

Strange
This article is not up to the standards of wikipedia. There are almost no sources, there are numerous POV statements, and there are poorly written sentences. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.235.249.80 (talk) 18:20, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree. As it stands this article looks like someone's essay. --78.86.137.221 (talk) 23:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

This article sucks in its current state. It feels like a debate. The french article looks much better; perhaps it can be used as a model. I don't feel confident in my ability to translate from french, but perhaps a french speaker can do that. Bob A (talk) 06:31, 4 February 2009 (UTC)

I think one of the reasons this article is so unsatisfactory is that it pussyfoots around the reality that the phrase 'cultural diversity' is politically charged, instead of frankly acknowledging it. When did the phrase enter the language and in what context? Who have been its most notable historical proponents? In what political, social, economic and cultural debates has it played a central role? Was cultutal diversity a divisive issue in the 1960s? The 1970s? The 1980s? This information is missing from the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.70.114.14 (talk) 16:38, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Doesn't
the first paragraph seem superfluous? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.65.247.233 (talk) 19:48, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Cultural Diversity in the Workplace
The issue of how to successfully work together with people who are culturally different is still a topic that requires training and understanding and is not something that is to be lightly thought of as common sense. In today’s modern workforce, the people that make up each workplace are as diverse as the type of work that is being performed. In the past, people who worked together were often from the same culture and the idea of having a workforce compiled of people from different cultures was not common. However, just as the work itself has evolved over time, so has the concept of having people from different backgrounds come together to get the work done. A common misconception is that culture naturally involves race and ethnicity. While it is true that people of different races might also have different cultures, it is equally true that people of the same race can have different cultures. In the past, interest in cultural diversity was mainly focused on the benefits of the business rather than the benefits of the employees. However, in today’s society, learning about cultural diversity is not just for overseas purposes. This is because now, more than ever, people from different cultures are here in the United States working alongside everyone else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pamelasaul (talk • contribs) 18:04, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Your own clueless reflections are not relevant to the article or this talk page. -- A ntigrandios ËTalk|undefined  08:45, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

French article revision
I incorporated a chunk of text I consider to be relevant to the article from the French wikipedia. I'm not very good with Wikipedia, however, so any improvements upon this are welcome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.90.55.168 (talk) 11:05, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Nayef Al-Rodhan
The article devotes a possibly undue amount of space to the thoughts of this one man. Is he a really key central figure on this topic? I note the separate article on him is extraordinarily long and detailed (e.g. linking to numerous individual papers by him), suggesting it may be largely self-written; so perhaps his mentions in this article are too. In any case I suggest they are heavily cut back. 90.198.224.197 (talk) 13:44, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

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Globalization and ICTs
I'd be interested to hear what folks think about making space for the evolving critique of cultural diversity as a discourse of neoliberal power spanning multinational monoliths and private liberal arts colleges alike. Sara Ahmed broaches the topic at length in her book On Being Included, for what it's worth. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zmuhl (talk • contribs) 15:10, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

"Controversies" needs renaming or restructuring
The section currently headed "Controversies" doesn't seem to contain any controversies. For a controversy, there should be different contrasting points of view held by notable sources, not a statement that the facts are obviously on one side. The first paragraph says that some practices done in the name of "cultural diversity", such as child marriage, are unethical. I don't think any of the article's sources, or literature about cultural diversity dispute this. If there is a controversy, it needs to be spelled out what the different perspectives are and who holds them. The second paragraph says that globalisation is a threat to cultural diversity. This is a very important point about cultural diversity but, again, it's not controversial. The third paragraph says that cultural relativism hasn't achieved widespread adoption among philosophers. True, but how is this a statement about a controversy about cultural diversity? Maybe there are people arguing that cultural relativism is essential to cultural diversity, and they are not a fringe we can ignore, but who they are needs to be spelled out. Most of this content belongs here, but we need more thought about how it is given context in the article. MartinPoulter (talk) 15:44, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
 * I've moved some content to other sections and removed off-topic content. That leaves one paragraph that I'm going to move here in case other editors want to work on it. At the moment, it comes across as a non-sequitur but maybe it could be possible to develop this into a section that describes a controversy.

"In the same manner that the promotion of poverty in underdeveloped nations as 'cultural diversity' is unethical. It is unethical to promote all religious practices simply because they are seen to contribute to cultural diversity. Particular religious practices are recognized by the WHO and UN as unethical, including female genital mutilation, polygamy, child brides, and human sacrifice."

MartinPoulter (talk) 13:50, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Now that I've accessed the Starr and Adams article and searched for "cultural diversity". It doesn't mention it! This only makes it seem more like it doesn't belong in the article. MartinPoulter (talk) 14:57, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

Paragraph moved out of article
I'm moving this paragraph from the article into Talk because it has several problems: hard-to-understand English, lack of sources, unencyclopaedic wording and general impenetrability. If anyone wants to improve this paragraph and re-insert it into the article, be my guest.


 * Cultural Diversity on Western Balkan countries

In 2005 the relations of EU and Western Balkan countries were passed from "External Relations" to "Enlargement" policy. As WB countries make steps forward in the future membership of the EU, the diversity in society within the WB is expected to increase further. It is important to see the relationship between cultural diversity and ethnic fractionalization from one side and governance, competitiveness, and human development from the other side. Even though the literature argues that cultural diversity has a negative impact on countries’ performance, the study of Hysa (2020) finds out that highly homogenous societies in WB are no more prone to good governance, global competitiveness and human development than highly heterogeneous societies within the region. In other words, countries with lower fractionalization index (such as Kosovo and Serbia) do not show a significantly higher performance than countries with higher fractionalization indexes (such as Macedonia, Bosnia, and Herzegovina). Thus, the influence of regional geographic distance seems to be much more significant compared to cultural diversity because the economic capacity and performance of WB countries are found to be positive but still modest. The Western Balkan countries are having a considerable mixture of ethnicities, languages, and religions. These varieties can push this group of countries to have a consensus among them in the economic aspects or to increase the gap among each other.

MartinPoulter (talk) 15:46, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Factors influencing cultural diversity
I've pasted in a section I'm calling "Factors" from another article which had a summary of a UNESCO report. This sets out factors that promote or inhibit cultural diversity and is thus good, meaty content for this article. However, the UNESCO report describes the state of the world in 2017/2018, so it's out of date. I hope the community will bear with me while I use other references to fill out this section (for example, other reports in the same series) and give a more up-to-date context. And of course I welcome help, MartinPoulter (talk) 15:09, 22 May 2023 (UTC)

To do
This is getting close to B-class. Not many issues to fix: MartinPoulter (talk) 16:58, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Characteristics: First bullet-point list needs to be verified and, if possible, made consistent with the rest of the section.
 * International legal context: This needs to make more narrative sense as to why these particular measures are mentioned, and how they are part of a wider campaign. More citations needed for the content of the Universal Declaration. Done
 * Factors: there are some very out-of-date statements in this section which could be updated with more recent reports
 * Globalization and mass media: this subsection seems too evaluative and lacking in citations.
 * Governance of culture: this subsection is too short and needs spelling out Completely rewritten 15 November 2023
 * National and local initiatives: this section needs more spelling-out so it's clear how this example relates to cultural diversity.
 * It would be nice to have citation formatting for ref 13. Done
 * Maybe a section for cultural diversity in the workplace? Diversity of workplaces isn't the topic of the article.
 * Note to self: ref for Characteristics section: and  MartinPoulter (talk) 16:05, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Update: some actions done and progress made on others. MartinPoulter (talk) 15:54, 11 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Update: I've finally managed to get a look at the cited page, 127, of the Kathryn Last book chapter from "Cultural Pluralism and the Return of Cultural Heritage". This is used as the source for the bullet-point list "Cultural diversity can take several meanings:" which starts the "characteristics" section and which seems to me to use confusing language. This and the surrounding pages don't mention cultural diversity, but they do discuss what is meant by "the cultural heritage" of a particular group. So I'm going to remove that bullet-point list; the Characteristics section will thus start with a list of aspects of cultural diversity from an academic source which discusses the exact question of defining cultural diversity. MartinPoulter (talk) 14:35, 28 November 2023 (UTC)