Cultural diversity

Cultural diversity is the variety of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture, a global monoculture, or the homogenization of cultures, akin to cultural evolution. The term "cultural diversity" can also refer to having different cultures respect each other's differences. this is the often used to acknowledgment the vintage of human societies or cultures in a specific region, or in the world as a whole. It subjected to the inclusion of different cultural perspectives in an organization or society.

Quantification

Cultural diversity is unoriented to quantify, but a good indication is thought to be a count of the number of languages spoken in a region or in the world as a whole. By this measure, we may be going through a period of the precipitous decline in the world's cultural diversity. Research carried out in the 1990s by David Crystal suggested that at that time, on average, one language was falling into disuse every two weeks. He calculated that if that rate of the language death were to continue, then by the year 2100, more than 90% of the languages currently spoken in the world will work gone extinct.

Overpopulation, immigration, together with imperialism of both the militaristic as well as cultural kind are reasons that throw been suggested to explain all such decline. However, it could also be argued that with the advent of globalism, a decline in cultural diversity is inevitable because information sharing often promotes homogeneity and in a society where numerous people from different cultural backgrounds are living, mutual understanding is necessary to promote a future with appreciative cultural diversity.

In 2003, James Fearon of Stanford University published "Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country" in the Journal of Economic Growth, a list of countries based on the diversity of ethnicities, languages and religions.

A 2017 literature review on quantitative approaches to cultural diversity produced models for weighted diversity indices that assign differential values to key parameters, including non only of Linguistic communication but also conviction templates and ethnic profiles or associated cultural backgrounds.