"The Vikings/Normans were incredibly dangerous—their conquests ranged from the Volga to North America, from Greenland to Sicily—for the paradoxical reason that during the Dark Ages they cooperated with each other better than their less ferocious victims did."

Another way of saying 'An armed society is a polite society.' LOL

"Virtually every college president in America publicly denounces the mentally-stultifying effects of a non-diverse student body. (Diversity of opinion, of course, is somehow much less fashionable on campus.)" and

"This is not to say that the close observation of racial diversity doesn't add interest to our understanding of humanity … or Shakespeare wouldn't have made Othello, the Moor of Venice, the tragic hero of one of his greatest plays.

What it does show, however, is that even in the most superficially uniform racial groups, there is almost endless human richness to be found."

These paragraphs show that diversity of the mind is far more important than that of origin. Yet individualism is frowned upon by the so called intellectuals and academics.

The homogenaity of the British does not mitogate against individual ancestral lines being more diverse. In fact, that our ancestors traveled is indicative of a wandering tendancy. Stan