a competition involving students from member nations. According to the European Union official website: India Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of India and leader of the Indian National Congress, vigorously promoted unity in diversity as an ideal essential to national consolidation and progress. He wrote at length on this topic, exploring it in detail in his work The Discovery of India. Indonesia Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, an Old Javanese phrase translated as "Unity in Diversity", is the official national motto of Indonesia. South Africa When apartheid South Africa celebrated 20 years of independence on 31 May 1981, the theme of the celebrations was "unity in diversity" (). Anti-apartheid campaigners denounced the motto as a cynical attempt to explain away the inequalities in South African life and called on runners of the Comrades Marathon to protest at the co-option of the event by wearing a black armband. The winner of the race, Bruce Fordyce, was one of those wearing a black armband. The term has since been incorporated into the preamble of the 1996 Constitution of South Africa as a central tenet of post-apartheid South Africa and is currently the national motto. The United States of America Indigenous peoples The Gwichʼin Tribal Council representing the Gwichʼin, a First Nations of Canada and an Alaskan Native Athabaskan people, who live in the northwestern part of North America, mostly above the Arctic Circle, adopted the motto Unity through Diversity. See also Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Cultural diversity E pluribus unum Just society Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno Citations References ● विविधता में एकता का परिचायक है' परंपरा - नगर चौरासी ● A Small Town In Madhya Pradesh, People Of All Religions And Castes Come Together In Harmony Nagar Chaurasi ● The World Record ‘Largest Multicultural Mass Food Fest’ Has Been Achieved By Nagar Chaurasi At Rajgarh-Dhar, Madhya Pradesh, India. ● राजगढ़ की नगर चौरासी उत्सव वर्ल्ड रिकॉर्डस में Collaboration Bahá'í belief and doctrine Mottos Multiculturalism Multiculturalism in Canada Pluralism (philosophy)