Diversity of thought, discipline, race, gender, sexuality etc. are extremely cardinal to the progress of a school, company, or any institution. The advantages are well researched and documented in this article. However, as I was reading this article I started to think about some questions (that I don’t have answers to):
- Are there any downsides or cons of diversity? (intuition says no)
- Do company’s/ institutions loose on talent while trying to meet their diversity quota?
- Does the entire concept of having a diversity quota beneficial or detrimental?
- When an institution “markets” its diversity numbers, does that have any psychological implications on the “diverse” individual — maybe self doubt (Do I really deserve to be here or am I just here to meet the diversity criteria?)
These are very convoluted questions. I’d appreciate peoples input on what they think.
vibhavnanda 