Diversit Diversity In The Workplace

Mark Twain once said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Bored, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one 's lifetime.” Put simply, traveling not only broadens one’s horizon, but also develops trust between those who travel, experiencing cultures that are entirely different from their own back-home, and those who host such travelers. This trust is one of the rudimentary elements for the world economy to run properly, especially because technology and innovation have brought people from different part of the world so much closer that the racial, ethnic and religious composition of the United States now is not the same as it was 50 years ago. Such diversity should also be palpable in the US workforce.

For a firm with such diverse composition as most of the firms in the US to function efficiently, we, first and foremost, must embrace diversity, paying particular attention to the discrimination faced by minority groups. We as a cohort should respect and celebrate diversity and, while doing so, we cannot simply ignore the true scale of hidden discrimination faced by these groups. We should also take urgent and affirmative actions to ensure they are able to challenge discrimination and unfairness, and promote positive and unbiased perceptions that counter such systematic biases. It should be in our aim to recognize and celebrate diversity with emotional connection to inclusion and