ABSTRACT
Diversity is not just about differences between groups and individuals, but about ‘identity’. Identity answers the questions: ‘Who am I? Who is like me? Where do I belong? What do I believe in? What can I do?’ Identity thus belongs to the future as much as the past since it is always in process. Different groups are not united in a single identity since we all have ‘multiple identities’. Sometimes our ethnic, gendered, age related or cultural identity is paramount, at other times it may be our national identity, global identity or even democratic identity. As globalisation dissolves geographical and national boundaries it has intensifi ed the multiple nature of identity in society. Associated with substantial movements of people, rapid communications and economic interdependence, globalisation often blurs the boundaries between ethnic and national groups.
