Thursday, July 21, 2016
Diversity Only Possible When We See It As an Advantage
The Mary Sue: For all that people are talking about the importance of diversity across all fields, it seems that there are always those willing to pay the idea lip service while remaining apathetic and short-sighted. What’s sad is that it’s the people that are supposedly the most creative and imaginative that are guilty of being the most myopic.
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This is certainly an honest report of the state of some of the entities that we would expect to be at the forefront of diversity. While a few of the statistics are a bit weakening to her point and the article starts to seem a bit like a long post on Facebook, the facts that are presented manages to both show how we don't necessarily know what we think we do when it comes to diversity in the businesses we use everyday and show what the affects of having true diversity is. Personally, I did not know the statistics on racial and gender diversity concerning either Facebook or Steven Colbert's writers. While these two specific examples do not a full picture of our diversity problems make, It is important for showing that we really still need to pay attention to these issues. I have often in the past found myself making assumptions concerning diversity in the worlds of television and in companies that are relatively modern, but this is not actually a safe assumption to make, and If we want to change our diversity problems we all have to train ourselves to look for these issues in everything we see and interact with.
I've always viewed the push for diversity as a crutch to actual advancement. There is a large population of people who believe diversity as a concept to be essential but do not realize that by doing so they are abstracting real life people. There are too many people in this world who view diversity as an abstract idea and do not care about the individual people. A lack of diversity should be considered a problem but an abundance of it shouldn't be an achievement, it should be recognized as the norm.
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