Why is "diversity" such a great or necessary thing?

Canada is diverse and look at them.

lmaoo I always grew up seeing little cartoon banners hanging in my school main entrance welcoming the parents, with like a Chinese kid drawn, a Jew like a white girl with a dark afro, a black boy, a ginger with freckles, an Indian teacher and a blonde girl and they're all smiling together

meanwhile the school had like no Jews or Chinese or Indian teachers and like barely black, only some mixed kids

they did similar in my school, making whatever displays they put up ethnically diverse af, despite there being hardly any actual ethnic diversity there, half the time I was the only kid of colour in the class haha, also my school had a racism problem lol.

really? The only one? Well that's gonna happen up north though. Lotta scots there I think. On paper it's mixed but sometimes I can imagine walking through for some time till you see a person of colour lol Was your area mostly white or Asian though? Because you could be alienated in a mostly asian area while not Asian too.

The only one in my classes, I'd say like 95% of the time haha. The area I live and my old school were/are predominantly white lol, but a lot of areas in Sheffield are predominantly Asian.

:\ Never knew how bad it could be...my gf is half black and has been verbally abused for being so but normally she mugs them off easily though.

I see what you mean, I sometimes get comments from people, I even got called a 'paki' at school by someone, which was weird lol, but if anyone says anything I just tell them to get f***ed, it's 2016 lol.

....you got called an asian? loool

Yeah lol, the guy that called me it was such a dickhead, he called my friend an ostrich just because she was tall.

lmfao ostrich

one time this special needs kid called this girl the n-word

she could only laugh...because he was special needs lol he looked like a badly drawn cartoon character he looked like a ****ing meme

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any specific meme?

the vast majority of people working in computing are men. It's not that women are barred from these jobs, but that many women don't seem themselves working in them.

Why? Because they don't see many other women working in the field. When thinking of a computer programmer, you think of a man, because that's the predominant stereotype which you have seen and ingrained into your view of the world.

Companies want the best people, and the best people are female as well as male, so it makes sense that they want to remove the unseen barrier which stops women from applying; that extrapolates to presenting themselves as more diverse, because by doing so they show potential female applicants that they too could work in that company and in that field.

Examples like this are found everywhere. Oxford University have, in all of their videos on specific courses, at least one woman and at least one man. It's not necessarily that they're trying to be fully politically correct, rather that they're trying to show applicants that, regardless of their gender, the course could be right for them. It's about changing ingrained and subconscious views - very few people are explicitly sexist and more, and it's the more subtle - often unintentional - elements of sexism that need to be changed.