If the Republican Party hoped that assembling a festival of diversity on the convention podium would convince voters that its party had a grand new diverse face, conversations with voters in four places in America this week indicated that it was not entirely succeeding.
For their part, Japan's neighbors need to acknowledge that Japan in fact has a diverse national conversation about history.
It would never, like Fox News, a part of the Murdoch empire, broadcast rank half-truths about the NHS under the guise of being balanced and objective – and if challenged argue that it is part of a diverse, plural conversation.
But, like the rueful, ebullient "Gangsters and Gold Diggers," this book belongs to what Zaid calls "the true universal culture" -- not our old utopian Global Village, but "the Babel-like multitude of villages, each the center of the world," where "the universality accessible to us is the finite, limited concrete universality of diverse and disparate conversations".
And that local democracy begins with the conversations diverse people have about the kind of community they want, and is sustained by the work of ordinary people coming together to make that vision a reality".
The lack of diverse and engaging conversations reinforces people's confirmation biases and creates more filter bubbles and echo chambers.
Where on television are you going to see a group of people that diverse having a conversation about anything substantive?
I do confess that I was deeply anxious about gathering a multi-dimensionally diverse group for conversation about the women's movement of the 21st century at the Omega Institute.
Despite the long walk from popular Center City restaurant destinations, it's well worth it to steer your post-appetizer walk with your parents towards this mass of trash, as its diverse variety of conversation-starting objects can provide a convenient change of subject after informing your mom that you know she thinks you loved Full House, but you've honestly never seen it.
