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This 4 page paper provides an overview of the conflict between unique, special group identity and the call to abandon group identity for the "common good." This paper relates the advantages and problems of both approaches and concludes that there is strength in diversity. Bibliography lists 3 sources
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more substantial focus on "diversity," in which the groups unique and special characteristics and strengths are celebrated. On the other hand, there are calls (mostly from outside the affected groups,
but definitely also including "assimilationists" within these communities) to eschew community identity in favor of the "common good" or "general welfare of the overall society, in order to find acceptance
and reap the full benefits of membership in that society. Both arguments have merit, but as we shall see, the "diversity" argument seems to have the best chance of providing
both individual empowerment and societal harmony. Each approach has its pitfalls, of course. If taken to extreme, each can cause disruption, disharmony and even chaos. For instance, if individuals adhere
only to and identify with the mores and culture of their own group at the expense of the overall society, that society finds itself in perpetual warfare, as in Rwanda
between the Tutsi and Hutus in the 1990s and Northern Ireland since the 1970s (Gallagher 2005). On the other hand, a slavish devotion to the overall culture and rejection
of these "minority" or "out" groups eventually leads to their demonization and persecution, along the lines of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 40s and Apartheid in South Africa in
the 1960s-80s, both of which led to the radical dissolution of the "pure" societies their defenders were so intent on preserving (DeMulder, 2009). Most of American society exists in the
space between those two extremes. Founded, and continued to be populated by, immigrants from every nation on Earth, America has always considered itself a "melting pot" of peoples, cultures and
ideals. It is only within the past 100 years or so that America has developed a national "culture" of its own and that the adherents of that culture have begun
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