Kalikiano Kalei
2 min readOct 24, 2021

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Agreed: "Diversity " is definitely not an inherently disingenuous concept. However, diversity is only fully optimised and successful when the diverse elements (presumably people, here) assume the obligations, burdens and responsibilities that enable and support that status.

At present, our greatest social problem is not 'diversity' per se but rather that too many 'diverse' individuals do not manifest and promote a suitably cooperative, amicably interactive attitude that promotes the overall greater harmony and amenability (e.g. tractability, agreeability and answerability, etc.) of the society they are part of. Therefore, in this crucial context, 'diversity' is fraught with a huge number of responsibilities in a manner virtually identical to that of 'freedom' (freedom is not, as most hopefully know, actually 'free'; it carries a substantially implicit burden in the form of myriad social responsibilities).

Further complicating things is the fact that human intelligence varies remarkably...from Einsteins on the one extreme to three-brain-cell mouth breathers on the polar other...and this inconsistency considerably further impedes awareness of all these requisites that must be fully grasped and acknowledged before 'diversity' may be truly achieved/optimised.

Thus, 'Diversity' is a grand concept, but one that may only thrive and survive optimally under some VERY rigorous preconditions and prerequisites.

I was a huge admirer of recently departed, truly admirable American, Colin Powell, speaking of diversity. Powell had many sagacious things to say about racial diversity in the course of his life, among them the following: "It's time we all stopped arguing about blacks and white and started acting like Americans!" I couldn't agree more...

Second star on the right and then straight on 'til morning, Colin! God speed....

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Kalikiano Kalei
Kalikiano Kalei

Written by Kalikiano Kalei

After many years in the medical profession (now retired), I am a professional student of the absurd (also a published author, poet & friend of wolves and dogs).

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