That's a curiously Panglossian account of two diametrically opposed visions of Europe.
Just two weeks ago, after all, during the election campaign, Labor and Likud purported to represent diametrically opposed visions.
His patients were often trapped between flickering emotional states, unable to choose between two radically opposed visions, Bleuler noted.
Two swish chocolate emporia vie for addicts within a few blocks of each other in SoHo, offering diametrically opposed visions of the age-old treat.
The divide reflects opposed visions of who should maintain the country's cultural patrimony, with one side pushing for conservation as the top priority and the other for a more commercial strategy that includes private investment.
And where, most importantly, the candidates offered two diametrically opposed visions of the future.
But if there are several variants of multiculturalism (see Joppke, 2017, chapter 2), on the part of interculturalism it comes down to just two, which still rest on (or yield) diametrically opposed visions of what multiculturalism is.
I distinguish between two versions of interculturalism, a majoritarian (practiced in Québec) and a post-majoritarian (in Europe), which yield diametrically opposed visions of multiculturalism, as either footloose cosmopolitan or parochial-segregationist.
Two diametrically opposed visions of America emerged.
There are fundamentally different, and diametrically opposed, visions of what America is, and what it should be.
