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In today’s world, racial, ethnic, and national categories no longer impose fixed barriers or unbending traditions. This is not t
In today’s world, racial, ethnic, and national categories no longer impose fixed barriers or unbending traditions. This is not t
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2015-02-12
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In today’s world, racial, ethnic, and national categories no longer impose fixed barriers or unbending traditions. This is not to say that these categories have disappeared. Rather, they are mixing and interacting in new ways. The hybrid nature of today’s society is a valuable resource that companies and businesses should tap into in their quest to innovate.
The ability to apply knowledge to new situations is the most valued currency in today’s economy. More than ever, creativity rewards those who exercise it, so curiosity about the source of creativity has never been higher. How creativity comes about is a riddle, but a few things seem clear. Highly creative people don’t necessarily excel in raw brainpower. They are misfits on some level. They tend to question accepted views and to consider contradictory ones.
The implications are plain to see: Divergent thinking is an essential ingredient of creativity. Diverse groups produce diverse thinking. Therefore, diversity promotes creativity. This logic applies to corporations, research teams, think tanks, and other groups of creators. Those who rely on a team of diverse people are more likely to innovate than those who rely on platoons of similar people.
To be sure, hybridity poses risks. A hybrid person may lose himself in a jumble of affiliations. A hybrid nation may botch the process of reinvention. Still, the price of such errors seems lower than the cost of circling the ethnic wagons and either shutting out people who are different or forcing them to become "one of us". Never before have so many people married across racial and ethnic lines. Never before have so many people left their homelands for work or pleasure. Never before have so many people touched or tasted the clothes, foods, musical styles, and ideas of cultures not available to them in their youth. These people are not becoming phantoms or dilettantes. Rather, they are part of an outpouring of human creativity that is being driven by radical mixing.
"You cannot spill a drop of American blood," Herman Melville wrote in 1849, "without spilling the blood of the whole world." More than ever, Melville’s declaration applies not only to America, but to all nations.
This text is mainly about______.
选项
A、the significance of diversity to creative thought
B、the advantages of diversity for innovative businesses
C、the impact of an increasingly multicultural society on the economy
D、the advantages and disadvantages of diversity
答案
B
解析
属主旨思想题。文章第一段最后一句就是本文的主题(见上题译文)。下面的段落进一步解释混杂性的好处:它对创造力有推动作用,有助于公司、团体进行革新和创新。因此,选项B正确。选项A、C分别是文章第一、三段的内容;选项D中提到的disadvantages(弊病)只在第四段前三句中简单提到,但接下来的一句用still这一表示转折的词表明了作者真正的观点态度:这种风险比起排斥、分化异类的代价小多了,所以disadvantages并非文章重点。
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