Businesses and societies benefit from cultural diversity for the same reason that biological systems benefit from genetic diversity. The more different positions you start from, the more likely it is that you will be in a position to overcome an unexpected adversity. This is widely recognised in business. It doesn't necessarily mean that you need racial diversity, but you do need employees with different world views. A business that stifles this diversity by 'shutting down' people who view things differently will eventually stagnate as a result of too many missed opportunities and lack of creativity. It is possible to have racial diversity in a company but no cultural diversity, and many nominally 'diverse' businesses let this happen. Likewise it is possible (though obviously more difficult) to foster cultural diversity in a company without racial diversity, providing of course that the cause of the lack of racial diversity does not prevent you from fostering cultural diversity. Different world views tend to come from different ethnic backgrounds. This is why 'melting pot' countries tend to be more able to maintain leading roles in developing new technologies, new arts etc. It is not until they start to enforce a uniform culture upon their own citizens that they lose this lead.

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Tassie devils doomed, say researchers

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Tassie-devils-doomed-say-researchers/2007/10/11/1191696072896.html

Australia's iconic Tasmanian devils are a threatened species because the fierce dog-like creatures have lost the genetic diversity that would ensure their health and underpin their survival, researchers said.

They are predicting that facial tumours will continue to ravage a population that has halved in number since the 1990s. There are about 100,000 examples of the world's largest surviving carnivorous marsupial left on the island of Tasmania, the last part of Australia where they are found.

A group of 47 cancer-free devils has been dispatched to four wildlife parks on the mainland as an insurance against extinction.

So if you liken biological systems to cultural systems then wouldn't attrition of species or culture be a natural part of the eco/culturalsystem?

In part. Things change. Species die out. You could even argue that genocide is natural, as is the attempt of one culture to take over the world. However when this happens in practice it is not anything inherently better in the culture that achieves this. It's like the difference between people adopting a religion because they like it or believe it and having it forced upon them. In nature no species except humans ever cooperated for the complete annihilation of another. It just ended up that way. It's the same with economic systems. Competition is a good thing and as part of this many businesses go bankrupt. But using certain methods to get ahead by stifling competition are bad for the economy as a whole.

Clear as mud?

You’re all dancing an elaborate, deluded dance on the deck of the Titanic given the high probability only microbes, bacteria, slaters and cockroaches will soon be left.

freediver wrote on Oct 15^th, 2007 at 10:11am:


War, annihilation of the the other party needs a great deal of cooperation, the kind of co-operation only a governed society can do. You need expendable resources, numbers, set jobs and devotion to them. Not many species can accomplish this but ants and wasps and us do go to war with the aim to annihilate the foe. Chimps are still tribal, fighting over local resources, the best they can do is tribal raids.

I wonder how many Muslim or African people you know, Valkie?  Any at all?  Your attitudes are those of a stay in the basement troll. You fear people who you have never encountered.  You display all the attitudes of a troll in the hope of gaining a response.  You talk big but act all great and fearful but in reality you are like a frightened little boy.  Tsk, tsk.   

Valkie wrote on Oct 24^th, 2021 at 5:00pm:



Bbwian nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, "So, you're back from Moscow, eh?”

I doubt you've stepped out of your momma's basement, Valkie.  You like most Xenophobes talk in generalities.  You refuse to think that some Muslims or Africans can be as smart, as useful as you.  You've never encountered a Muslim or African.  Those that immigrate here are more useful than you are, smarter and harder working.  You endlessly carp about people without regard to their individual worth.  Your a WOFTAM.  You wouldn't last five minutes in the real world.  Tsk, tsk.   

Brian Ross wrote on Oct 24^th, 2021 at 8:24pm:


Come on brian.
I have put the question to you without vitriol and as a debate of substance.

If you have facts, lets hear them.
If you have a strong counter argument, I'm willing to listen.
So far you have done nothing but insult me and question my facts.
That is not debate.

In the above post
I doubt you've stepped out of your momma's basement, Valkie.
and yet you expect me to believe your generalities.

I have been to several Islamic and African run countries, and Ill tell you they are not good places, not good at all.
I have seen the real country, through a mining and machinery supply perspective, not tourist meccas where everything is hidden.
I lived in Sydney for years and observed just how muzzos treated people living in areas near and around Granville where some of my friends once lived. They had to move out due to ongoing and continual harassment from the muzzos.

I worked in Newcastle and had a daughter attending Newcastle uni where the Somalis were being the monkeys they are.

Brian, I doubt you have had anywhere near the exposure to muzzos or Africans that I have had.
I have been all over the world in my mining engineering field.
I have seen the damage Islam is doing to great countries and cultures like Sweden, Germany, England, France and others.
I have friends in these countries who are in dismay at the way their countries are changing because of Islam.

Are you a muslim brian?
Are you a convert, we all know converts are even more dangerous than normal muzzos.

This is my previous post, please, have another go and respond without insults and personal attacks.
If you cannot, it puts a lie to any counter argument you may have.

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