(Cultural) Originally, diversity of ideas and viewpoints were recognized as important to many different endeavors such as learning and
decision-making - the idea being that the over time the best ideas and/or viewpoints would win out in fair competition. Unfortunately, once this concept was generally embraced as a good thing, it was subsequently perverted and has become a euphemism for
quota preferences given to politically favored minority groups in such areas as hiring, promotion,
granting of federal contracts and admission into educational systems.
Genuine diversity would imply that someone from
Greenland or New Zealand would be a welcome addition to increase the diversity of a university culture. Instead, administrators believe their university somehow becomes more diverse by adding one more black from down the road, increasing black % enrollment from 7.23% to 7.24%. Odd how administrators never seem to notice that
blacks don't really contribute to diversity anyway since blacks usually
restrict their company to that of other blacks in the student union, classroom, fraternity, university clubs, etc.