Monoculturalism is the practice of actively preserving a culture to the exclusion of external influences. It should not be confused with a homogenous society, which is one with racial uniformity, but some possible exposure to foreign culture. An example of a homogenous society of this sort would be Japan, where American post-war cultural influence has modified the traditional society to some extent. Iceland; North Korea and Spain under Franco are examples of monoculturalism. Usually a monocultural society exists due to undeveloped communications structures; geographic isolation or political isolation (usually under a totalitarian regime).
In forestry, monoculture refers to the planting of a single species of tree crop instead of encouraging a diverse canopy of trees.
The Irish potato famine was caused by susceptibility to Phytophthora infestans.
In particular, Dan Geer has argued that Microsoft is a monoculture, since a striking majority of the overall number of computers connected to the Internet are workstations and servers running versions of the Microsoft Windowsoperating system, many of which are vulnerable to same attacks.
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