At the risk of being racist, I'm not sure I would want everybody in the world to write with the same racial diversity. I want to say that diversity of writing styles should allow writers to write however they'd like. For example, why dont the Berenstain Bears books have black bears? Or polar bears? I'm also not sure that having a more diverse cast of characters would necessarily make a book better. For example, did I care that Harry Potter dated a ... Korean?... girl? Did that make the depth of the story better?
As a composer, I actually like that some composers did not embrace the modern mvt that hit music in the early 20th century. Their conviction to stick to the Bach/Beethoven/Brahms harmonic traditions have created some great works (alongside other great "modern" works). Too bad they're so Germanic in harmonic progression, but so what? I enjoy them anyway.
For that matter, do we actually limit diversity by wanting everybody to think, respect, and even produce diversity? (ie., we will only tolerate one thinking/production style.) In English or on the western tonic scale system, of course. :)
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Date: 2010-07-24 12:42 am (UTC)As a composer, I actually like that some composers did not embrace the modern mvt that hit music in the early 20th century. Their conviction to stick to the Bach/Beethoven/Brahms harmonic traditions have created some great works (alongside other great "modern" works). Too bad they're so Germanic in harmonic progression, but so what? I enjoy them anyway.
For that matter, do we actually limit diversity by wanting everybody to think, respect, and even produce diversity? (ie., we will only tolerate one thinking/production style.) In English or on the western tonic scale system, of course. :)