Are We Really Embracing Diversity?
By Clint Cora
If you ask most people whether we should embrace diversity or not, the vast majority of them will probably say yes since it seems to be the most politically correct response these days. After all, very few people want to appear racist or ignorant. People might even say that we should be open because it's good to have different cultures around.
But the question is, are we really embracing diversity? If you go to a typical workplace or school cafeteria and see segregated groups of people all sitting in their separate racial groups by choice, this may indicate that as a society, we really haven't embraced diversity as much as we think we have. If people still prefer to be with their own kind, then perhaps a diverse environment is something that we try to just tolerate, rather than embrace. Embracing and tolerating are very different actions.
It is really too bad if this is the case in reality. Diversity can be a positive or a negative depending on how we approach it. And in the case of merely
