Diversity And Identity

Diversity and Identity based on perspective of Nation, Culture, and State

The term diversity means the differences in racial or ethnic classifications, age, gender, religion, philosophy, physical abilities, socioeconomic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, intelligence, mental health, physical health, genetic attributes, behavior, attractiveness, or other identifying features. Nowadays people seeing the issues of diversity not as a thread, but a reason to respect each other. For example, "Respect for Diversity" is one of the six principles of the Global Greens Charter, a manifesto subscribed to by Green parties from all over the world. Another example is that some political creeds promote cultural assimilation as the process
In this postmodern, 'wide-open' world our bodies are bereft of those spatial and temporal co-ordinates essential for historicity, for a consciousness of our own collective and personal past. 'Not belonging', a sense of unreality, isolation and being fundamentally 'out of touch' with the world become endemic in such a culture. The rent in our relation to the exterior world is matched by a disruption in our relation to us. Our struggles for identity and a sense of personal coherence and intelligibility are centered on this threshold between interior and exterior, between self and
For many older people who have lived and worked in the same place all their lives, the sense of place can be very important. But it can also be very important for young people too – especially those whose closest identifications are with other young people in the same area, and is probably a factor in the phenomenon of ‘gang culture’. While there is a great deal of support material encouraging young people to become more active participants in their local communities through volunteering or campaigning. But somehow, this thing could rouse the issues of diversity, in which people will be more individually, and seeing each of us a different