But today, rather than a space for including people from many diverse backgrounds and cultures, our global cities are expelling people and diversity.
My medical-school class is brimming with bright, compassionate young minds with diverse backgrounds and ideals.
Throughout my term, we worked hard to attract talented prosecutors from diverse backgrounds, and we achieved a measure of success.
It showed her day after day just how well people of diverse backgrounds and races can get along.
And the question of how to integrate people from diverse backgrounds and colors into the American mainstream is debated everywhere, because immigrant families have settled just about everywhere.
Our students, all state educated, come from extremely diverse backgrounds and have impressed us time and again with their ferocious commitment to making the world a better place.
"Council members have been selected from diverse backgrounds and work in a variety of disciplines related to immigration and asylum seeker issues.
Maria Tottle, mature and part-time students advisor at the University of Bristol, says: "Mature students come from diverse backgrounds and have complex needs.
The brand is also opposed to fast fashion, only producing two collections a year, and uses models of varying shapes and sizes, from diverse backgrounds, and without Photoshop.
The newspaper said it had also damaged the state's reputation as a place "that embraces people of diverse backgrounds and makes them feel welcome.
The power of music in bringing together people of diverse backgrounds and cultures crops up here and there throughout this show.
