Undoubtedly, living with diversity or how to learn to live together, should be one of the pillars of school education. Most of the available literature on the subject is devoted to race relations, ethnicity, identity of immigrants, and active citizenship.
I feel that there is a greater challenge on our hand - how to live with our own people - how to live with homogeneity. We face this problem in our families, in the
organizations we serve, and in society. In India, for example, there is an insurgency in the North East, 35,000 to 40,000 persons have been killed in Jammu & Kashmir,
and 32 percent of the country's districts are under Naxal influence. Add to this the alienation of millions of Muslims and Dalits.
I firmly believe, that before we start living with global diversity, we must first learn to live with our own people.
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Date: 04/25/2024