![]() The act of labeling and bucketing people also encourages stereotyping. For instance, more than 400 million people around the world identify as Hispanic, but a diversity survey would put them all in the same bucket. Labeling people in the name of diversity encourages people to be bucketed into broad categories, often lumping together people who have nothing in common. Furthermore, labeling can’t deal with increasingly common situations such as mixed-race individuals.Ģ. This is a misguided notion because most traits, such as skin color and age, fall along a continuum. The very notion of diversity requires that each individual be assigned labels that specify characteristics such as race, gender, sexual orientation, age, and so on. I thought it would be useful to provide readers with a list of specific reasons why I believe that the focus needs to shift away from diversity and toward inclusion. As I continue to conduct academic research on diversity and inclusion, and as I work with corporate clients to help them define and quantify diversity, I keep finding more reasons for focusing on inclusion, and more reasons to reduce the focus on diversity. ![]()
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