Why We May Mean'Local Diversity'When We Talk About 'Local Control'

摘要

Many Californians would be hard pressed to name a place where people believe in "diversity" more than we do in the Golden State. We embrace it in our writing, we celebrate it locally with parades and festivals, and we expand it through our interracial and intercultural marriages and other relationships. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines "diversity" as "the condition of having or being composed of differing elements: VARIETY; especially the inclusion of different types of people (... of different races or cultures)." Our belief in the value of diversity seems almost boundless. A brief online search of organizations' diversity policies shows that many contain references to educational level, gender, race, age, language, ethnicity, sexual orientation, physical attributes, personality, thinking style (I am not making this up), nationality, income level, work experience, marital status, political ideology, religious beliefs, military status, geographic location and much more.