"The challenge inherent in cultural diversity is not posed simply at the international level (between nation-states) or at the infra-national level (within increasingly multicultural societies); it also concerns us as individuals through those multiple identities whereby we learn to be receptive to difference
while remaining ourselves. Thus cultural diversity has important
political implications: it prescribes the aim of freeing ourselves of
stereotypes and prejudices in order to
accept others with their differences and complexities. In this way, it
becomes possible to rediscover our common humanity through our very
diversity."
source: page 5 of, UNESCO's Report "Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue" (2009) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001852/185202E.pdf
[note: The above quote has been posted in protest to the recent (descriminatory) decision by the US Supreme court to allow states to ban affirmative action measures intended to repair racial and socioeconomic inequality in society by increasing the diversity of students admitted to universities. The impetus: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/opinion/racial-equality-loses-at-the-court.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0]
source: page 5 of, UNESCO's Report "Investing in Cultural Diversity and Intercultural Dialogue" (2009) http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001852/185202E.pdf
[note: The above quote has been posted in protest to the recent (descriminatory) decision by the US Supreme court to allow states to ban affirmative action measures intended to repair racial and socioeconomic inequality in society by increasing the diversity of students admitted to universities. The impetus: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/opinion/racial-equality-loses-at-the-court.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0]
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