Diversity

I half agree with this quote. I believe that you don't need to have different backrounds to have a diversity of opinions, but usually if people are from one backround they usually have the similar opinions, which can sever potentially useful ideas that someone with different experience can offer. For example, during the times when America was segregated based on skin color, only the white people consulted one another whether it was right for this segregation to occur. They all had more or less the same opinions, so they continued their unfair seperation of races. But once the African American peoples protested and were allowed to express their opinions to the White house, things quickly changed, and segregation more or less ended. I also think that there should be equal amounts of different ideas, so one doesn't overwhelm the others by sheer numbers.

I think people have different opinions because everyone is raised in different areas where customs and the enviornment is different. Suppose someone was born in a place where water was scarce, and they learn to value water and many other aspects of their life. Now someone born in a place like New York, where all the resources this person needs are readily availble to him. He won't value things like food and water as much as the person who grew up in a place where they were luxuries. So if they were to discuss about the importance of Earth's resources, the New Yorker would probably more ready to use vasts amounts of them, while the person who grew up in the deserts would be a lot more frugal, and would probably try to ration them.

-Samar