In order for those that governance us, to govern well, they need to know their people, especially the perspective of those people that come from quite different walks of life -- something that is not necessarily easy to achieve or to know. Unfortunately, the easy road for governance, defaults far too often, into taking into salient account primarily one’s own social milieu, in which the expectations there and the laws so written within such, are thereby consistent to those that are the masters of that domain, consistent with the belief that all others, thereby, should adhere to it as a matter of course, of which, though this might seem fair for those that make and interpret those laws; it is, for all those in particular that are outside such orthodoxy, typically not so.
In any government, its legislators, and those that implement such, it is functionally important that these people come from a variety of backgrounds, a variety of education achievements, and a variety of perspectives, not because such will make the implementation of good governance easier for those that are part of it, but expressly because it is necessary in order for all those that have had their voices so often been ignored or marginalized, to be able to have a voice within that governance. After all, those that do not have an effective voice, are often the very ones that suffer from the most discrimination and injustice, for the laws have not been implemented and enforced in order to properly and fairly include them.
In actuality, within any nation, its people are going to come from all walks of life, of which, some of those walks, are not going to be ones that certain, privileged people have ever experienced, or even are familiar with, or even really care about. It is that very lack of knowledge and personal experience that makes it difficult for those that claim that they desire to be fair, just, and equal to be able to do this successfully and thereby fairly govern people, that come from all walks of life, as well as from different experiences, effectively and fairly.
This is why it is important for those that wish to govern well, that they actually take not only the time to learn of and to know all of their people, but that as much as it is possible, they experience such themselves or at least are visibly cognizant of all of their peoples, that form their nation, rather than to deliberately ignore such; for those that come from different milieus and different social conditions, are going to behave, differently, and differently does not necessarily mean that such is wrong.
This means that great nations are those nations that do not pretend that injustice, unfairness, poverty, ill-education, and discrimination do not exist, but rather make it their point to do all that is reasonably possible to ameliorate such, and this is more readily accomplished by those that are empathetic to that cause. A great nation cares about its people, and those that really care, take both the time and put forth the effort to forthrightly do right by those people; by valuing them as being of merit, by listening to them, and by getting to know them at the level that they are at; for a nation that respects its citizens is far superior to that which treats certain of those citizens with that overbearing condensation which often borders on just plain disrespect