Post by Eλευθερί on Jun 30, 2019 0:01:52 GMT
Well, without the Poles, Romanians, Indians and Lankeses., they would never figure out how to make things work, to do all the dirty work cheap.
Seriously I'ts a very good opinion, that somehow got lost over the years
I think it was probably subtler than that. Not necessarily so much a conscious, preserving "The Master Race" discrimination against those who were not caucasian, but rather a failure to see people who were not caucasian as having something important to contribute to humanity.
There's a lot of talk about "diversity" in the US today, and the topic provokes resentment in certain quarters. But I think When Worlds Collide presents a perfect example of how failure to recognize diversity as a virtue can be a weakness.
Suppose all farmers start planting one strain of food crops because it's popular with buyers and is very hardy. Now let's suppose that some unanticipated disaster occurs--maybe there is an epidemic outbreak of mold infestation that wipes out all the crops. People starve (Ireland's great potato blight). Far better to maintain a diversity of types of food and of strains of individual food plants. (This is a cardinal rule in investing. If you invest all your money in one stock and that stock's price drops precipitously, you could lose all your money. Never put all your eggs in one basket.) The same principle applies to animals, including humans. If your goal is giving human beings the highest chance of being able to survive in a new world that has never been explored, you want a diverse group of humans to be in the founder community.