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Too diverse ?

par David Goodhart, article paru dans la revue Prospect, février 2004

Is Britain becoming too diverse to sustain the mutual obligations that underpin a good society and a generous welfare state? Prospect has picked over this “progressive dilemma” in several articles over the past few years. This essay tries to draw some threads together.



Prospect Magazine, février 2004
Prospect Magazine, février 2004
Britain in the 1950s was a country stratified by class and region. But in most of its cities, suburbs, towns and villages there was a good chance of predicting the attitudes, even the behaviour, of the people living in your immediate neighbourhood.

In many parts of Britain today that is no longer true. The country has long since ceased to be Orwell's "family" (albeit with the wrong members in charge). To some people this is a cause of regret and disorientation - a change which they associate with the growing incivility of modern urban life. To others it is a sign of the inevitable, and welcome, march of modernity.

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