Em-Slice

When I was attending classes for my degree in Business Management, we learned about honoring diversity as a means of affecting the bottom line. By creating a diverse workforce, a company can harness human potential from different backgrounds. I also learned about the legal side of diversity and how a company needs to protect itself from law suits. These suits were becoming more and more common. However, to actually learn about how to interact with different cultures, you had to take extra classes at night. These classes were free and you could get a certificate.

Over the past few years, I have worked for a place that emphasizes diversity to the extreme. There are forums, classes, workshops, meetings, special task forces, and even a Chief Diversity Officer. The environment is extremely sensitive to political correctness, recruiting from different backgrounds, and white privilege. My question is when does all this importance on diversity actually begin to do more harm than good? When does it become patronizing and when does it actually become harder to be in the minority?