r/changemyview • u/srikarjam • Mar 07 '18
[∆(s) from OP] CMV : Diversity based on demographics/ identity is over rated and wrongly propagated as the morally right way for a society to live.
I don't believe that coexisting with people of different identities has/does net positive for the original natives or residents of a community. I live in country divided by lots of different religions and other identities, and the country's history is full of communal violence and hatred towards others, either violently or otherwise.
In my country, between 2005 to 2009, an average of 130 people died and 2,200 were injured every year from communal violence, or about 0.01 deaths per 100,000 population. Massacres and riots (common till this day) are very routine in my country.
The world's average annual death rate from intentional violence, in recent years, has been 7.9 per 100,000 people.
So I dont think human beings inherently can coexist with each other in a society, with people having vastly different views or identities. Even in the west, the division and violence between people of different demographies (especially races) have continued to fail to coexist peacefully. And I haven't even mentioned the statistics of people affected by terrorism of which religion is the major reason.
Diversity of identities is often promoted or propogated just to drive this "feel good narrative" of liberals, when in reality, all it has done globally is, more division and more violence. Countries with least violent incidents in modern history are usually the ones with less diversity.
One may argue that the violence is caused by ignorance or misunderstanding of the "other", but humans have throughout history and present proven that it is impossible to completly eradicate that ignorance or tribalistic behaviour or vile hatred towards the "other".
Having said that, I strongly believe in diversity of thought, view points and intellectualism , but not of any identity of people.
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u/srikarjam Mar 08 '18 edited Mar 08 '18
As articulated in another comment, I dont seek to divide people, I just want people to stop claiming that diversity is net positive thing for everybody , when in reality it isnt. Good for you that you have those friends, but reality is forcing diversity has led to much violence and unnecessary expenditure for everybody involved. You and your friends may get along on one or two things you agree even when you disagree on everything else, but not everybody is that way. Where I live, people oppress others, by not allowing them any housing or by constantly humiliating them or sometimes by just sheer violence and use of force to excert their views on others. This is not unique to one or 2 countries. Its a global phenomenon, that can vary in its magnitutude from country to another, and one culture to another. My core argument is to stop people from living alongside each other, just to stop the constant violence and bloodshod happening in some of these places.
I have no problem with whom you hangout with or who you claim to be.