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Obviously I work a lot speaking my own language,
but I'm someone that believes cultural diversity is as important as biological diversity to sustainability.
You don't want a biological mono-crop.
The Irish potato famine probably taught us that.
You don't want a cultural mono-crop either.
You don't want everybody to think the same and be the same.
We had a long time of what's known as the melting pot
and I'm not a fan of that.
I don't want a puree where everything's
the same and you can shop at Wal-Mart. I like to see a little more diversity because I think that that strengthens a democracy.
So it's a naming and claiming
that exists as a part of a culture
of a country
that I think needs to be reconsidered.
when one considers where we are and where we need to go.
I want to say this because it's an interesting construct of who gets to decide what's sacred
in a society and then you have legal institutions that come ostensibly from a different paradigm, a Christian
paradigm
that are making judgments on what is sacred to other people
in this land. And then the quantification of sacredness,
I'm not really clear how to quantify sacred.
I don't have that one down. I say that because I think it is valuable discussion
to have in this society.