Divisions (CC)

Our recent starting of "What is the What" has brought the idea of divisions into my mind, and there are certainly a lot of them. People divide themselves based on a literal multitude of things. Gender, race, religion, wealth, ethnicity, nationality and I am sure many more. As we have seen, these divisions lead to nothing good. In the book alone we have seen the divisions between gender lead to sexism and inequality, divisions between nationality lead to abuse and animosity, and the divisions between religion lead to outright violence and death. Needless to say, I, and hopefully everyone else, are opposed to such things. So what then, are differences between cultures and other such things simply bad? Would a world under a single culture and society be a good thing? I doubt it. Though I cannot say much for the latter, the former I would disagree with. The fault is not with the differences themselves, the fault is with the people who interpret them. To the well adjusted person, the differences between cultures are viewed as good. They are a part of our history, a reminder of the diversity of the world and the richness of the different cultures we come from. Divisions become a problem when people start to view other cultures with derision, mockery, suspicion, when they begin to believe that their culture or country is better than another one. We cannot do this. As a species we must, as MLK said "sit together at the table of brotherhood" while not forgetting, nor getting caught up on the diversity that our long history has provided.