ABSTRACT

One of the major problems facing societies in almost all parts of the world is the inadequate accommodation of social equity with cultural diversity. The crisis emanating from neglect of this issue can be seen in societies as different and wide apart as the Soviet Union, India, Pakistan, the United States and the United Kingdom. The lack of discourse between the two systems, cultural and social, means that there are fewer shared ideologies on the basis of which accommodations can be negotiated, for ideologies themselves are not static; the very process of discourse for accommodation can generate a greater overlap between the two systems.