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I'd argue that most people will only pay lip service to the idea of equality until someone steps in to actually force them to walk their talk. Most of the prob

I'd argue that most people will only pay lip service to the idea of equality until someone steps in to actually force them to walk their talk. Most of the problems I've seen with diversity hires being "less capable" has been because they've had to work with people who are poor communicators and can't get past the idea that not everyone has the same shared background they do. That means your co-worker from Taiwan doesn't recognize your carefully constructed metaphors based arounds star wars quotes, and they will likely try their best to understand what you meant, but you should have just communicated like an adult instead of an excited teenager.

AnthonyMouse 10y ago
> I'd argue that most people will only pay lip service to the idea of equality until someone steps in to actually force them to walk their talk. Most people don't care about anything. But apathy isn't inequality unless it's applied unequally. > Most of the problems I've seen with diversity hires being "less capable" has been because they've had to work with people who are poor communicators and can't get past the idea that not everyone has the same shared background they do. Lack of shared background is a type of being less capable. People use Star Wars metaphors because when everybody gets them, the metaphor is more engaging and takes less explaining than the non-metaphor version. And you're making this out to be a problem, but it's really only an advantage of cultural assimilation. Hang around coders for a while and you'll decide it's time to see Star Wars. Which you can do even if you're originally from Taiwan.