Why ‘Diversity Is Our Greatest Strength’ is a Corporate Lie
Why ‘Diversity Is Our Greatest Strength’ is a Corporate Lie Ben Bartee My students, where I once taught at a private university outside of Bangkok, would often come into class carrying coffee cups conspicuously emblazoned with the universally recognizable Starbucks© logo. When they set them on their desks, they were uniformly careful to position the cups so as to prominently display the logo. They didn’t patronize Starbucks© because they liked the taste or thought it to be particularly good, but because of the status they believed it conveyed. Success, in their estimation, meant consuming the most popular Western products. They had no idea they were diluting their own culture to line the pockets of malicious actors. Photo credit: Richard Barrow What is difficult for the propagandized Western mind (including mine) to grapple with is that the “diversity” obsession is a purely Western phenomenon. Any other culture understands that diversity is not ideal for cohesion ; they’re mutual