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Can there be diversity without conflict? I doubt it. Woodstock nation never came to pass. Little creatures of the forest haven't come together. We don't have many models of diversity functioning without conflict. The Cosby show isn't real; that life doesn't exist in very many places.We don't like diversity in this country, but we like to believe that we do. We pretend a lot. We pretend that we don't have social classes. We pretend that racism is something of the past. We don't really want group homes for retarded people in our neighborhoods-or even group homes for adults with physical handicaps. Most religions are broken up into a lot of splinter groups. Even roommates don't get along well if they are too different.
Diversity, like many things that are good for us, usually isn't comfortable. The problem is not just in a failure to communicate or in ignorance, the common and convenient characterizations of the problem.
Child Development Stories
I was watching a little boy in a program in Chinatown who was about to conduct an experiment in the water table-"Can gerbils swim?": a follow-up to his dramatic investigation-"Can gerbils fly?" ...