hi,
Diversity is not just physical, diversity, real diversity are the differences beneath the skin that go down to the very core of our beings that make us who we are. Diversity is me liking classical music and the next person liking country music, me being politicaly nuetral and the next person being a complete liberal, it is what allows us to see different things from different angles and perspectives. I as a person need to rely on you to have different thoughts, ideas, beliefs for my own safety. Sometimes it is someone elses perspective that keeps us safe from ourselves. Example, I think it's a good idea to build a bridge across a river at the edge of a cliff. I have researched it, I know I have done the calculations on my bridge design and I think them to be flawless because I think the most important thing about a bridge is the design of the bridge itself and it's ability to withstand weight. Without diversity in thinking, everyone would agree with me, with diversity, you come along and say, "Yes, the design is important but there are other important aspects as well, for instance, you have not taken into account other factors like major earthquakes in the area and no where in your bridge design are there any safety measure to keep the bridge in one piece if a earthquake was to hit. On top of that you want to build a bridge on the ground that is so soft you would have to drive a foundation 2 times the normal depth in order for it to support the weight of the bridge, no where in your design do you account for that, if one car were to drive on the bridge it would surely bend and collapse under it's weight and the weight of anything on it." See, I need you to be diverse, we all need diversity. Sometimes it's a pain in the butt to have someone challenge your ideas or to be different because that means you have to compramise but any unwillingness to compramise is an obvious tell tale sign that someone is more concerned about themselves than they are about the greater good of the entire whole. Whatever the whole may be, in the case of my example with the bridge, the whole would be anyone who uses the bridge. If you were to present your ideas to me and I was more concerned about being right and having my own way just to fulfill my own ego, than you would see that I might not be the right person to design this bridge for people to use because you would see what my true intentions would be. So diversity acts also as a checks and balance system that is engrained to the very being of who we are. I hope this helps and good luck
