ABSTRACT
Based on anthropological fieldwork with an infantry unit of the Canadian Forces deployed to Afghanistan in 2006, this article argues that traditional measures of diversity are inadequate to represent diversity as it is experienced by the soldiers of the unit. It suggests two alternative but complementary approaches to assessing diversity in the unit, making further the case that their adoption would both improve perceptions of the heterogeneity of the unit and also increase acceptance and appreciation of that diversity among the soldiers within the unit.
