Great diagram from How to Save the World, about how social networking works, and the tech tools that have developed to serve this need.

The first is by Joe Perez, titled "Gay Culture's Over - What's Next?".

What I like about this article, and the article by Sullivan this points to, is the shifting sense of identity in the cultural world, and how identity changes over time.  Am I identified as gay, as buddhist, as a nationalist, as whatever the heck I am?  With this identification, do I wall myself off with those who share my identifications, or do I still interact with others outside of that identification?  Do I claim my ethnic background (in some sense a smaller sense of identity), and go out from there to a larger embrace of universal and spiritual values, or do I minimize an ethnic background, in order to emphasize my embrace of integral or spiritual values?

Also Tuff Ghost has a great integral analysis on the clash of values embodies by the death of Theo Van Gogh. 

Particularly the discussion of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who is a female Muslim apostate, threatened by other fundamentalist Muslims in her country.

While it is very easy to say the ideal is "unity-in-diversity", in practice, values that are held important by me, or anyone, are in a sense violated all the time, either of a secular or religious nature.  So there are fundamental commitments that we have - whether to certain social freedoms, the ability to wear certain clothes, or not others, the ability to allow certain practices, and not others.

What is allowed and not allowed in practice, what you approve of, or dont approve of - economically, socially, artistically, and religiously - we all have these stated and unstated commitments.