Veronica Garcia
A Market Place of Echoes?- Weinberger
- Is too much diversity good or bad?
- Can diversity be contained?
- What would happen if we had no diversity?
The one question that I am going to answer is question one because I think that too much diversity can be beneficial. I think that diversity is beneficial because we can learn from one another rather than being all the same with equal IQ's. Weinberger does share the different perspectives of other intelligent minds about diversity and how it can be good and bad in all kind of scenarios. In the book The Difference by Scott Page he says, "It's better to have a diverse group than a group that consists only of the very best minds diversity trumps the best and the brightest" (Page). Page explains, how diversity is better played out in a group than individually because even the greatest minds won't produce a greater solution to an answer than a diverse group. I say we let diversity play its role than try to contain it. In his book Weinberger states, that the internet is so diverse that it has no boundaries anymore because people just state their opinion and go off topic with no solid facts. Diversity is great but without any guidelines about what is acceptable or not it can be uncomfortable on the web. The only bad thing I find in diversity is if you you truly have a diverse group, you get small talk because people don’t have a common platform for conversation so you cant really feed into it. Nevertheless, diversity is important.
Diversity may be important but when there is too much present, radical ideas, irrelevant to the matter at hands, begin to surface which distract from what is important.
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