ROOSKIE
Major Contributor
This is simply not true.The outcome may be unifying but more often segmentation itself is not. It is inherently divisive.
Segmentation is not any more inherently divisive than the lines on a notebook page or the 5 separate ink tanks in my printer.
You absolutely cannot have unity without first the parts. There is zero chance of togetherness without first a pile of separate parts.
All wholes are made up of parts, the very concept of whole is intimately and intrinsically dependent on the concept of parts. They can never be isolated.
A rainbow is clearly segmented and yet it is also a rainbow and the best ones are ones where you can distinctly see each color equally.
Divisiveness, which requires a sense of disagreement and or conflict is also often really import.
In fact that is the foremost principle if freethinking and unique behaviors are to be permitted one must allow for it. Allowing for extreme divisiveness, while uncomfortable at times, is the balance for totalitarian organization.