Extreme Diversity

Genetic history, health status, specific illness, and household structure will be important criteria for affiliation in addition to race, language, and economics.

Real World Application

Families become deeply diverse
Communities will need to learn how to negotiate more complex and layered identities as citizens develop a range of affinities based on attributes in addition to race, ethnicity, education, and income. Genetic history, mixed families, household diversification (multi-racial, multi-generational, same-sex, adoptive), and religious personalization create multiple layers of identity that define a complex topology of ideas and values. Developing forums for building bridges across extreme, often polarizing, ideological perspectives, will be a major challenge for community institutions.