One of my friends was telling me about how he wanted to go eat something new, like at a Chinese restaurant. Once we finally got to the restaurant, though, he got really, really irritated with the fact that there weren't entirely Chinese, or Caucasian, workers at the establishment. When he saw that there were some Latino workers, he became oddly distraught, and unappreciative of the services there.
That led me to asking him the following: If you were so obsessed with going out looking for diversity in what you eat and where you go, why are you upset when you see diversity when you go to that very place? I understand you wanted Chinese this evening, but whenever you look for diverse cultures, be careful what you wish for.
It got me stuck on this loophole in the logic of modern business and culture. We don't really ever look for diversity as much as we look for a specific desire to be met, or a specific type of something to be explored. We're much more selfish in our desires than we ever could claim to be.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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