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It seems that diversity is covered under very narrow concepts, mainly drawn up around skin tone these days. If I have to define "diversity" people of fairer skin are more diverse than any other skin tone. Hair color runs from platinum blonde to black. Eye color can be brown, black, grey, hazel, green and blue..and some interesting blends as well.
Africans do not share this diversity, nor do Asians, Hispanics or American Indians. So, please, what defines "diversity?" Those with light toned skin seem to share more diversity of physical feature than any other on the planet. How Can THIS be? Hmm? I find my mind at a conundrum? ..
The only reason diversity tends to be most defined by ethnicity is that it is easily measured in the workplace and the workplace is one of the few areas of life that has been pressured into enforcing the concept - at least on the surface. I'm certainly not saying they have achieved it or that they even are looking at the "spirit" of diversity - they are only doing the letter of the law and bean-counting to show their compliance.
It is my opinion that embracing and accepting diversity is when you realize that it's really ok that not everyone is like you. They don't have to be. They don't threaten you with their difference. It really is fine. That covers everything from race and ethnicity, religion and philosophy, political spectrums, sexual orientation, gender identity and lifestyle choices, socioeconomic or ideological diversity, and so on.
Helpful to this are some phrases I have learned...
"Your kink is not my kink, and that's ok." You can change that to be "Your <anything> is not my <anything> and that's ok."
Or, more commonly, "Let's agree to disagree."
Basically anything that is the opposite of, "My worldview is the absolute universal objective truth, and if you can't capitulate and agree that I'm right, then you are at least wrong, possibly going to hell, and if we were face to face, I would hit you over the head and the last human standing could stand tall in his righteous rightness."
Nah, as a species we really need to evolve past that kind of crap. We will never reach a point where all humans agree on what to think, how to live, how to pray (or not)...we might as well accept that and learn to live comfortably with it.
It is my opinion that embracing and accepting diversity is when you realize that it's really ok that not everyone is like you. They don't have to be. They don't threaten you with their difference. It really is fine. That covers everything from race and ethnicity, religion and philosophy, political spectrums, sexual orientation, gender identity and lifestyle choices, socioeconomic or ideological diversity, and so on.
And not only is it not threatening, there have been several workplace studies that show a diverse group of employees come up with better ideas. When people have to confront their unconscious biases, they make better decisions.
One of those stupid modern buzzwords.
Society has always been diverse, there has always been poor, zealots, fanatics, church goers, rich, f.art concealers, brutal....
The fact that we don't kill each other depends on hunger, envy, having a full or empty stomach...not race or religion, just excuses.
Only 70 years ago, 50 million people were killed in this continent and they were very similar, so that idiotic American race obsession is false.
Humans don't need any excuse to kill each other.
Ignorance and hunger, the real diversity.
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I find my mind at a conundrum? ..
