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This paper analyzes discrimination in light of two possibilities: that variety has a positive marginal value and that it is less costly to deal with more homogeneous inputs. In market settings, it explains the anomaly that firms practicing discrimination in hiring may survive in a competitive environment. In nonmarket settings, it explains the minority separatism practiced under the name of 'multiculturalism' on college campuses. Curriculum reforms in the direction of more ethnic, racial, and religious 'exclusivity' may be understood as attempts to change the constraints within which individuals of diverse cultural backgrounds, brought together into intimate contact, may maximize their utilities. Copyright 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers