Why we have diversity? animals, culture, language and many more. It is evolution. Evolution's ingredients are natural selection and isolation.
I grew up in a small village in India. India has over 1600 languages. The food habits, dressing, rituals and culture vary dramatically, even within a 50 km radius. There is a huge cultural variation between state to state, north to south and east to west. But now, mobility of the population has increased because of the job and availability of easy transportation. Earlier marriages took place within 20 to 30 km and all relatives stayed closed by. This mixing of the population is eroding cultural diversity. Languages are disappearing, all are speaking a common language. Is it good or bad? I am not sure; I believe that we are going along with the changing time.
I grew up in a small village in India. India has over 1600 languages. The food habits, dressing, rituals and culture vary dramatically, even within a 50 km radius. There is a huge cultural variation between state to state, north to south and east to west. But now, mobility of the population has increased because of the job and availability of easy transportation. Earlier marriages took place within 20 to 30 km and all relatives stayed closed by. This mixing of the population is eroding cultural diversity. Languages are disappearing, all are speaking a common language. Is it good or bad? I am not sure; I believe that we are going along with the changing time.
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