Roxanne Jones takes your questions on the future of humanity. What if humans have a natural limitation in terms of brain processing or emotion processing that makes it impossible to tolerate certain s an diversity? That's intresting question. I get tet fear, but i think we see that er, you know, the nature of identity is just really maluable across different contacts. The only worry is just, but there dos men going to provoke the next conflict atd one higher level up of identity. And that's something we always have to manage and always have to look out for.
During an era of identity politics, culture wars and increasing awareness of the structural biases that contribute to global inequality, it’s easy to become pessimistic about the possibility of making diverse democracies work. Yascha Mounk is a writer and political scientist whose recent book, The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, offers analysis of how our fractured societies can acknowledge the injustices of the past, while moving forward towards conciliation and cooperation. Hosting the discussion is BBC journalist and broadcaster Ritula Shah.
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