How does DIVERSITY improve your life? Ethnic? Religious? Cultural? Sexual? Language? How do you make it work?

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How would your life be worse off without these various forms of diversity?

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Answer 1

One cannot improve, expand or develop without input from many sources. You need a conflict in order to develop yourself, otherwise you're just a robot reacting to predetermined input.

Diversity is the key to knowledge and understanding.

Answer 2

There used to be a great article on a website that no longer exists and I did not make a copy of it, but it was an analysis of diversity and the benefits of diversity, which turned out to be: None.

Diversity in and of itself brings no benefit to the business world. Businesses look for people who can do their jobs competently and efficiently. Gender, race, religion and ethnic background do not bring anything into the mix, except perhaps in Sales where sales people are better accepted when dealing with "their own kind".

On the other hand, diversity has a lot of adverse side effects, like race riots. It turns out that most people do not like people that are different from them. That why you have so many wars and arguments and killings.

Answer 3

In the corporate world, diversity is just another buzz word. It was forced onto the company I work for by its clients. In that context, it means you have to work with lots of obnoxious people and can't say squat about them - they just have "diverse" work styles.

In my own life, it's meaningless as well. Just because they've come up with a new word for an existing concept doesn't have any impact on my life.

I mean, OF COURSE there's diversity in life! The world isn't peopled by legions of me.

Diversity has no place in my life. My life is what it is.

Answer 4

Diversity is a must to be updated & progressive but it should be within the parameters of social, cultural and religious values otherwise the worst form of destruction.

Answer 5

Diversity is a very important thing, and without it, there may be war and things like that because a certain group of people may want to be the supreme leader, much like during the Spanish Inquisition.

Answer 6

Diversity is the main reason behind the creation of this entire universe by Allah swt.
As Allah swt is a close system (Huwal-Baatin) and at the same time an open system (huwadh-Dhaahir) as well.
The creation of this universe is the expression of Allah swt quality of being open and HIS height of Dignity as being open still HE is entirely close as well.

Diversity by definition, is an optimum level of contradiction within a functioning unit, that does not harm the balance of the unit and allows its identity be unchanged.

Answer 7

Diversity is good. Otherwise we be existing in a bland and vanilla milieu.