Quotes About Diversity

Culture, on the other hand, is an infinite game. Culture has no boundaries. Anyone can be a participant in a culture—anywhere and at any time.

They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. "Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned. "That can be his Indian name," I suggested.

I don't think of people as queer or straight," the Doc said. "Not when you're as old as I. And I don't think God does either." "I didn't know you believed in God, Doc," Vance said.

Hiring quotas reduce efficiency.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only that life forces upon them choices that we do not have to make.

culturas diferentes tienen códigos morales diferentes.

No hay razón para pensar que si el mundo es redondo todos deben saberlo. De igual manera, no hay razón para pensar que si hay verdades morales todos deben conocerlas.

El error fundamental en el argumento de las diferencias culturales es que trata de sacar una conclusión sustantiva acerca de un tema del mero hecho de que hay un desacuerdo acerca de él.

There was nothing benign about segregation, nothing accidental.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.

You call me a freak. You say that I'm different and that I don't belong. Well okay. I accept that.

We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager is all about! Whether you admit it or not, you are all worried that the others won't accept you, that if they knew the real you, they would recoil in horror. Each of us carries with us a secret shame that we think is somehow unique…And if we are, each of us, freaks – then can't we accept what's different in each other and move on?

Tease hair, not homos!

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the members of the group holds privately. It's the combination of all those pieces of independent information, some of them right, some of the wrong, that keeps the group wise.

groups that are too much alike find it harder to keep learning, because each member is bringing less and less new information to the table. Homogeneous groups are great at doing what they do well, but they become progressively less able to investigate alternatives.

Homogeneous groups are great at doing what they do well, but they become progressively less able to investigate alternatives. Or, as March has famously argued, they spend too much time exploiting and not enough time exploring.

be cool. God created you that way

America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.

By the late nineteenth century the dazzlingly multiethnic character of the now great metropolis echoed the diverse origins of its earliest European explorers, but only one group knew the port as their place. For if the port made New York, the Irish made the port.

1940s Jersey City childhood, "I grew up thinking America was an Italian country governed by the

It is the position of some theists that their right to freedom of religion is abridged when they are not allowed to violate the rationalists' right to freedom from religion.