Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to mono culture, as in the global mono culture or a homogenization of cultures, akin to cultural decay. For example, before Hawaii was conquered by Europeans. The culturally diverse Hawaiian culture existed in the world and contributed to the world's cultural diversity. Now Hawaii has been westernized, the vast majority of its culture has been replaced with Western or American culture.

The phrase 'cultural diversity' can also refer to different cultures having respect for each other's differences. The phrase 'cultural diversity sometimes misused to mean the variety of human societies or cultures in specifies region. or in the world as a whole; but these phenomena a multiculturalism rather than cultural diversity.

By analogy with biodiversity, which is thought to be essential to the lo term survival of life on earth, it can be argued that cultural diversity ma be vital for the long term survival of humanity and that the conservation of indigenous cultures may be as important to mankind as the conservation of species and ecosystem is to life in general. The general conference of UNESCO took this position in 2001 asserting in article 16 the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity that cultural diversity is a necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature. This position rejected by some people on several grounds.

Firstly, like most evolutionary accounts of human nature, the importance of cultural diversity for survival may be an contestable hypothesis, which can neither be proved nor disarmed. Secondly, it can be argued that it i unethical deliberately to conserve less developed societies because thigh will deny people within those societies the benefits of technological and medical advances enjoyed by those of us in the developed world.

In the same way, it is unethical to promote poverty in undeveloped nation as cultural diversity. It is also unethical to promote all religious practice simply because they contribute to cultural diversity. Particularly, there are some practices that are recognized by the WHO and UN as unethical such as female genital mutilation, burning the widow on the husband's burial pyre, polygamy, human sacrifice, etc.

Title: Cultural Diversity

Precis: Cultural diversity refers to different cultures without any disgraceful to other's differences. It varies from country to country, nation to nation. But this diversity tends to the mono culture for the enforcement of colonization in many parts of the world. Any way, cultural diversification is such an important aspect that it is inevitable for long term survival of humanity. To make the cultural diversity beneficial for human kind, it should avoid all kinds of unethical practices that harm humanity.