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Originally posted by jaguar
Cultural diversity is no different to biological diversity
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No, y'see....that analogy is seductive but really misleading. Culture is *much* more fluid than speciation. It's not an either/or, it's a both/and. A given organism can have only one genome, but a person can embrace many cultures and ideas at once; in fact, that's a fundamental principle of the organization of the human mind. See Minsky's "Society of Mind".
Environmental awareness and "green" thinking is important, but it's not a universally applicable set of principles. You need more tools than a hammer if everything isn't to look like a nail.
06-02-2002, 09:35 AM
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