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Ehh... I thought that 'diversity' means we give everyone equal opportunities and treat them the same way. Now it seems it means 'we need to have this particular

• lutusp 14y ago
  > I thought that 'diversity' means we give everyone equal opportunities and treat them the same way. No, that's survival of the fittest. Giving everyone equal opportunity and being blind to everything else is how nature does it. It's called evolution. "Diversity" is a code word for increasing the number of participants over what natural forces would allow for, if the best and the brightest were to be the only selection criterion. Having said that, there is a point to diversity -- it hopes to address prejudicial forces that prevent everyone from having an equal opportunity to show what they're made of. But "diversity" means exactly the opposite of what you seem to think. The point of diversity is to maximize variety, not competence. But it can often lead to a good outcome.