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There’s a huge difference between stating my personal opinion and making factual claims. My opinion is that more diversity is good and makes the world better.

Also: > I’m not against any color but...

lol.

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Personal opinion- I think homogeneous societies cooperate much better and I personally believe that so-called forced diversity of racial backgrounds is an effort to lower the camaraderie in a team and keep the loyalty to the firm and not the team members and thus bringing down wages by competition.

I am all for diversity of ideas and background. Something which would make a companies more productive at the same wage.

I also believe that no race is superior to another- everybody has different goals. And so long as one doens't try and interfere in another's society, the world would be a very smooth place.

Homogeneity is good only if you are moving towards the optimal goal. Diversity is good to bring in new ideas which helps adjust the goal and keep the society robust against failure. Like autocracy vs democracy. If you have a benevolent godly dictator, that's perfect. But we accept that no such ideal exists, so democracy is the compromise. Diversity in the workplace exerts the same goal. It lowers efficiency, but efficiency is pointless, even counter-productive if it is towards the wrong goal.

I don't see what you added to my comment. I already said diversity of ideas and background is good- diversity purely based on color to make a star trek movie is not.

Racial diversity is a proxy to background/idea diversity since different races come from different backgrounds and have different ideas of reality. Organizations are pushing all kinds of diversity, not just one based on color. Race just happens to be easy to measure. That doesn't make it wrong, it is somewhat in the right direction though it might not be optimal.

This is the most racist thing I have read today. Different races come from different backgrounds and have different ideas of reality? I think you meant different cultures which is a VERY different thing from race.

Either way, why use a proxy and not the real thing: idea diversity. Then what you propose is laziness at best.

Also, what do you mean by right direction? Diversity of ideas means diversity of goals right?

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