As mentioned in a previous post we popped into the Tate Modern museum in London at the weekend, mainly because we needed to kill an hour before lunch and it was raining, but I must say it was a very interesting hour and well worth taking a look. A standout exhibit for me was the one pictured above. Actually this photo doesn't really do it justice as the bookshelves extended around the whole room, which was much bigger than this picture suggests. It shows highly decorated books, hundreds of them, organized on uniform shelves painted white for contrast. All the books were authored by immigrants to the UK, which was kind of the point of the piece, i.e. to highlight the contribution made by those that come to our fair shores to set up their lives here. It was a powerful point, diversity in a society can be a force for good as much as it can be a force for division, I guess the trick is to only be intolerant of intolerance.
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