"As the first global generation ever, the Net Geners are smarter, quicker and more tolerant of diversity than their predecessors," he writes.
Ideology has separated families through history, but modern America is famously tolerant of diversity, and this tends to be true even in the familial cryonics context.
And, although he concedes that it's a good thing that our society is now more tolerant of diversity, he adds that "the sacking of the old order has left us fraught and unhappy, isolated and averse".
One of them is its tendency to repeat points almost verbatim, like the assertion that Net Geners are "smarter, quicker and more tolerant of diversity than their predecessors," which appears on Page 6 and again, in nearly identical form, on Page 10.
Six lines from the end of the book, after page upon page of contemporary critique inflected by a sort of bilious nostalgia, he writes: "Undoubtedly, there are things we do better now: we are more tolerant of diversity, there is far less discrimination against people from ethnic minorities, women, disabled people, homosexuals and those who are transgendered.
Her killing has been condemned by local Muslim groups, but that has not stopped even centre-leftists saying that Italians may have been too tolerant of diversity.Meanwhile Brescia's latest horror a triple killing, possibly linked to east European organised crime has prompted a protest by supporters of the far right.
An inclusive curriculum teaching about students' various cultures and histories can help make education more meaningful and students more tolerant of diversity.
If citizens are less tolerant of diversity when they imagine themselves as belonging to a nation, how can the promotion of national identities then help to reconcile social solidarity with recognition of diversity and openness for immigration?
Laws are humane and tolerant of diversity.
It's a tough and testing road that, until the government changes its attitudes towards the education system, is not going to transform into a world that is immediately encouraging and tolerant of diversity any time soon.
