Rethinking Our Future Together: Meeting the Challenge of Managing Diversity and Inclusion in the Twenty-First Century

Rather than getting distracted by surface differences between human groups, we should give priority to the deep similarities that all humans share. People are far more alike than they are different. Also, most genetic variation is found within rather than between populations. In the modern era, groups have highlighted their differences in part to justify their collective rights. Researchers have also climbed onto this ‘we are all different’ bandwagon, which endorses relativism. However, in a relativistic world, it is the weak and ethnic minorities who suffer most. Rather than abandon universals, we should make sure that the universals adopted actually reflect the interests of both majority and minority groups.