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Cultural Diversity - Multi-Ethic Britain (5)

Universality

Although there is such diversity among human groups, the diversity is not infinite. Diversity is not unlimited, and the interactions between nature and culture means that ‘human groups, no matter how diverse, comprise a common humanity constituted by universal biological and social characteristics’ (Baker, 1997, p4). The transcultural models of nursing all recognise that diversity and universality are not mutually exclusive, that similarities and differences among human groups exist side by side.