ABSTRACT
Understanding diversity is not different from eating a pineapple. How do we eat a pineapple? Of course, we need to dissect it into bite-size chunks. In order to understand diversity, we need to define it, understand its aspects and dimensions. In this chapter, we examined the origins of diversity and examined its varied definitions, categories and frames. The chapter shows the power and poverty of defining and framing diversity in certain ways, accounting for the historical development of the diversity frames. The chapter offers an illustrative case of how the nature-nurture debate in diversity is misappropriated by recent developments in genetic science and why it is important to consider multiple frames of diversity to understand its complex meanings and categories.
