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Conversations With Coleman

"Diversity: From Rome to Rwanda” with Jens Heycke

Conversations With Coleman

Coleman Hughes

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Jens Heycke. Jens is a researcher, writer, and competitive cyclist. He studied economics and Near East Studies at U. Chicago, the London School of Economics, and Princeton. His book is called "Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World's Past and America's Future" In this episode, we talk about the origin of the term "melting pot", as well as the origin of the concept of multiculturalism. We talk about the goal of cultural assimilation. We talk about how ancient Rome tackled the issue of cultural diversity among its subjects. We discuss the early Islamic empires; modern-day Sri Lanka; Rwanda and Botswana; the Ottoman Empire; the French color-blind system; Singapore; and much more. This conversation is basically a survey of how all of these different societies have tackled the issue of cultural diversity and what lessons we can draw from their successes and failures. I enjoyed this conversation and I hope you do too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman.

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My guest today is Jens Heica.

1:08.0

Jens is a researcher, writer, and competitive cyclist.

1:12.0

He studied economics and near-ease studies at UChicago,

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the London School of Economics, and Princeton.

1:18.0

His book is called Out of the Melting Pot into the Fire,

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Multiculturalism in the World's Past and in America's Future.

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In this episode, we talk about the origin of the term melting pot,

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as well as the origin of the concept of multiculturalism.

1:31.0

We talk about the goal of cultural assimilation.

1:34.0

We talk about how ancient Rome tackled the issue of cultural diversity among its subjects.

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