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since we talk here on "diversity", this might also bring the issue of "inequality".</div>
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These are similar terms, somehow conected to each other, but different concepts.</div>
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Both terms refer to the idea of "difference", "not equal". Both terms bring the idea of "inclusion." </div>
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"Diversity" usually refers to "the political and social policy of encouraging tolerance for people of different backgrounds"<br>
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(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity#Sociology,_politics_and_law" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" id="LPlnk840904" previewremoved="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki<wbr>/Diversity#Sociology,_politics<wbr>_and_law</a>).</div>
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<div>Essentially, people are diverse, in any scale of groups: familiar, local, professional, national, global. And that's essentially good. <br>
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<div>There's a diversity of knowledges people can contribute to the community where they are included. </div>
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The meaning of "inequality" takes a slightly different aproach. Usually it refers nowadays to economic aspects.</div>
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"Economic inequality is the difference found in various measures of economic well-being among individuals in a group, among groups in a population, or among countries." (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" id="LPlnk785897" previewremoved="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki<wbr>/Economic_inequality</a>).</div>
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<div>We realize that people are very different, not in terms of their essence, but in terms of their existences, that is, the material conditions for their existences, and that's not good.</div>
<div>Inequality has been increasing world around in recent years. It may be a barrier against a healty diversity.</div>
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<div>Great levels of economic inequality bring many pernicious efects, such as ignorance, radicalism, hostilities to differents, many sorts of political tensions.</div>
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<div>We can see recent reports and statistics made even by liberal organizations, such as Oxfam, Credite Suisse, pointing out that there is a growing gap due to economic inequality, showing all the negative consequences of that, and that there should be an
active effort to mitigate such great inequality:<br>
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<div>(2016) <a href="https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/bp210-economy-one-percent-tax-havens-180116-en_0.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" id="LPlnk333456" previewremoved="true">https://www.oxfam.org/s<wbr>ites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_<wbr>attachments/bp210-economy-one-<wbr>percent-tax-havens-180116-en_0<wbr>.pdf</a><br>
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<div>(2017) <a href="https://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_attachments/bp-economy-for-99-percent-160117-en.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" id="LPlnk175390" previewremoved="true">https://www.oxfam.org/s<wbr>ites/www.oxfam.org/files/file_<wbr>attachments/bp-economy-for-99-<wbr>percent-160117-en.pdf</a><br>
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<div>(2017) <a href="https://www.credit-suisse.com/corporate/en/research/research-institute/global-wealth-report.html" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">https://www.credit-sui<wbr>sse.com/corporate/en/research/<wbr>research-institute/global-weal<wbr>th-report.html</a><br>
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<div>(Sorry, not native english; portuguese) . <br>
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<div>Just few thoughts. Sure there could be much more to deepen in these issues. </div>
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<div>-Do we see any implication of the related aspects of diversity and inequality inside our own OSM ecosystem? Could the OSM community deal with it? How? </div>
<div>-Would there be something that the OSM community could do to help our world to achieve more diversity and less inequality? <br>
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