This is the tagline of an e-mail I got at work. If you take it at face value, it suggests diversity of all sorts: people of different cultures, people of different sexes, people of different skin color, people of different hair color, people of different eye color, people of different religions, people of different height, people of different intelligence, people of different political bents, and so on. And the implication is that if we don't include representatives from all of these different groups we're somehow worse off.

In fact, the phrase was intended to have the narrow interpretation of people of different ethnicities or cultures.

If one were to say that a group could only operate at its best if it includes people of different hair color his audience would laugh themselves silly. Why don't they do the same when "hair" is replaced with "skin"?

Please don't interpret this as bigotry because it's not. I'm suggesting that a proper viewpoint should be to bring together people of differing ideas, and that their culture, ethnicity, weight, sex, hair length, and so on should not be a consideration at all.

Your views?

PS The law should prohibit discrimination on the basis of hair color. Blondes are treated very unfairly.