But it also risks making some policy debates narrow and context-free, and fostering identities based exclusively on the narrow local community or on ethnicity, feeding fear or hatred towards those outside a restricted group. The explosion of social media and of new ways of sharing information and ideas, unfiltered by political and cultural elites, is also likely to have played a role.
Conclusion So to conclude, I wish you all the best of luck on your journey of discovery of what is normal; of what is usual, typical or expected. One difficulty that I suspect we all face is when we think we have found the answer, it seems to change again. Perhaps the one constant is that uncertainty is normal! Thank you.