What are the weakness of ethinic diversity
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Diversity is not ALWAYS a strength. It is sometimes a weakness.
Diversity can be a strength when it is acknowledged and managed. It can be a weakness when people deny its very existence, or think that it is not a relevant issue, or are simply against it in principle.
Dr. Carole Kovachs of USC ran a social experiment that demonstrated this, with a population of 1,000 students. She split them into small groups of 6–8 people, deliberately organising them so that some groups were single-culture (all Anglo-Saxons, or all Asians, or all Latinos) and other groups were multicultural.
She gave all groups the same set of problems to solve, then measured their performance. The results showed that the single-culture groups performed according to the average performance of the whole population. The multicultural groups performed on the extremes: some of them performed much better than the average, while others performed much worse.
The difference lies in how diversity was managed within each group. The high-performing groups found a way of working together that capitalised on their differences. Diversity increased the repertoire of approaches available to the team, making it richer and more effective. The low-performing groups got stuck in misunderstandings and conflict. Their diversity made them less efficient.
The problem in society is that we tend to argue in favour or against diversity per se, regardless of how we manage it. If we leave things up to chance, there is a 50–50 chance that it can be good or bad. You could argue that the chance is actually greater that things will go wrong.
For diversity to work and provide benefits to society, it needs to be actively managed. Then everyone can benefit by learning from each other and increasing every individual’s capabilities and richness of experience.
Diversity should not be forced upon a group, because it can be very threatening to people who do not have a solid sense of self-esteem and identity. The path to successful integration of diverse communities starts with acknowledging the issues and working to address the fear of diversity.