All 21 Uses of
diversity
in
Outcasts United
- The question of how to cope with cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity—that loaded concept—is a pressing one.†
Chpt Intr.
- Their findings underscored the cost of diversity: when people have little in common, they tend to avoid each other and to keep to themselves.†
Chpt 3
- Nelson looked askance at diversity training and opposed offering any "special treatment" for refugees, particularly in the arena of traffic violations.†
Chpt 3
- Indeed, when looking for a successful model for coping with—and benefiting from—Clarkston's diversity, one needed to look no further than the local supermarket, Thriftown.†
Chpt 19
- The clientele reflects the diversity on the shelves.†
Chpt 19
- The solution, he argued, was that the church remake itself as an explicitly international congregation that reflected the diversity outside its doors.†
Chpt 19
- But there was another example of a less fearful approach toward Clarkston's diversity in even closer proximity to Mayor Swaney—just outside the doorway of his office in City Hall, in the warren occupied by Clarkston's new police chief, Tony J. Scipio.†
Chpt 19
- Scipio instituted diversity training, and established a policy that allowed any Clarkston resident who asked to ride along in police squad cars.†
Chpt 19
- IN 2005, A British researcher named Steven Vertovec coined a term to describe the incredible cultural complexity that had taken hold in places like Clarkston, Georgia: super-diversity.†
Chpt 19
- In a paper he wrote about super-diversity in the United Kingdom, Vertovec put down his own thoughts about strategies for making super-diversity work, or at least, work better.†
Chpt 19
- In a paper he wrote about super-diversity in the United Kingdom, Vertovec put down his own thoughts about strategies for making super-diversity work, or at least, work better.†
Chpt 19
- Super-diversity in New York isn't viewed as a new, threatening force but rather as the normal state of things.†
Chpt 19
- Citizens in such places therefore come to exhibit what Vertovec calls "civility towards diversity."†
Chpt 19
- As diversity becomes the norm, in other words, people cease to focus on it.
Chpt 19 *diversity = the condition of variety
- Diversity becomes "no big deal."†
Chpt 19
- The key to making super-diversity work, in other words, may have less to do with embracing it than ignoring it.†
Chpt 19
- Or as the sociologist Lyn Lofland wrote in a book about city life, "Civility probably emerges more from indifference to diversity than from any appreciation of it."†
Chpt 19
- And that created more of a problem than accepting the diversity.†
Chpt 19
- The situation in Clarkston backed up Vertovec's argument that top-down efforts to promote the embrace of diversity were unlikely to succeed.†
Chpt 19
- And yet, at Thriftown, at the Clarkston International Bible Church, in the police chief's office, and on the gravel-strewn field behind Indian Creek Elementary where the Fugees played, there were groups of people with a growing comfort toward—if not quite an indifference to—the extraordinary diversity that had come to Clarkston.†
Chpt 19
- Their eldest son, Shamsoun, a quietly intense young man with ink black skin and piercingly white eyes, said that the many ethnic groups in the area got along well when the family lived there, and he remembers how the diversity of the region was explained to him as a child.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(diversity) the condition of variety -- especially in reference to members of a population group who are of different races or cultures