ABSTRACT
Diversity has become one of the most commonly used words in the United States. Walter B. Michaels, author of The Trouble with Diversity, put it most aptly when he claimed that diversity “has become virtually a sacred concept in American life today. No one’s really against it; people tend instead to differ only in their degrees of enthusiasm for it and their ingenuity in pursuing it” (2006, 12). In fact, few other words generate such an uplifting feeling of what it means to live in a democratic and free society. But what exactly does it mean to be diverse? Does it mean that we should accept the racial and ethnic differences of others? Or perhaps diversity refers to class tolerance? What about gender, sexual orientation, age, culture, religion, or any multitude of other differences between people who live in our society?
