He said, "This virgin city under unified control … is in a position to exact unity in plan and homogeneity in expression and harmony with the whole natural environment".
I guess it's a perfect example of why we don't want homogeneity in the human race.
Genetic studies have shown the tendency to intermarry that continued until the 1970s had produced a degree of "genetic homogeneity", according to researchers at the university of the Balearic Islands.
"Every child in this country learns the same thing," and nationwide tests merely reinforce the intellectual homogeneity that results, in the lament of To Kim Lien, the director of the Centre for Education and Development, a Vietnamese non-profit in Hanoi.
That leaves atheists unprotected, and the government, which appears to see homogeneity as desirable and likely to make ruling easier, has recently been cracking down on them.
The apparent homogeneity of the place the shared national experience of strip malls, flags, ham patriotism and bad television is, after all, balanced by extraordinary contrasts.
Mr Krugman concludes his paper with the same message found in his blog post: that lagging goods trade in America is a product of increased homogeneity across America.
But Communist Party mandarins insist on calling them dialects, not languages, in an attempt to create "national unity and homogeneity" and promote the standard language, says Umberto Ansaldo, a linguist at the University of Hong Kong.Official efforts to spread Mandarin sometimes encounter resistance.
Although there is still a long way to go in the representation of women, "this is a dramatically different and more colourful picture than the all-male, monochrome and monofaith assemblies of decades past," says Karabekir Akkoyunlu, an assistant professor of Turkish studies at Graz University.And for history buffs this marks a modest reversal, at least, of a century-old trend towards homogeneity.
In a way, it is torn between its past and its future: it still yearns for cultural homogeneity, but will in fact need more immigrants, particularly highly skilled ones, to make up for its low birth rate and to keep its economy competitive.It is the "legacy of romanticism", in the words of Dieter Oberndörfer, a political scientist at Freiburg University, that holds Germany back.
Now that demographic forces in all the developed countries are pulling in opposite directions, will that homogeneity survive?The markets of the developed world have been dominated by the values, habits and preferences of the young population.
