The opposite of diversity is not uniformity. It is discrimination.
Ironically, diversity and discrimination are actually quite similar. Diversity highlights differences as a means of expanding a group to achieve variety. Discrimination, on the other hand, makes distinctions, not to highlight differences, but to eliminate them.
Discrimination sees differences as negative. Diversity sees them as positive.
The goal of discrimination is exclusion, whereas diversity seeks to include.
Diversity affirms differences because they contribute to the health of the whole, while discrimination makes on thing the whole.
Diversity does not need uniformity. Discrimination does.
- Jan G Linn in "Bigger Christianity"
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