Indigenous traditional knowledge systems not being recognized and valued as scientific and being made subject to validation by modern scientific methods and approaches and or reductionism.

Yet such reductionism lies behind one of today s dominant concepts, multiculturalism, according to which one of our identities must prevail above all others, serving as the sole criterion for organizing society into distinct groups.

For instance, corporations, especially in the financial sector, reward too many executives richly despite mediocre performance. But apart from tarring too many with the same brush, there is something deeply troubling about this narrative s reductionism.