Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Diversity of ideas is productive for any group that has a common culture, so that research is not surprising. If everyone in a company is thinking the same they won't innovate and progress, so successful ones actively recruit people who can challenge their thinking - they still recruit and promote on merit though, and ensure they recruit people who buy into the companies culture and direction.
That view of diversity is not what the general population (and some organisations), rightly or wrongly, perceive it to be. To them it is a check-box ticking, virtue signalling exercise. That is not a meritocracy.
Going back to my initial point of a common culture, diversity on a national basis - and here we are talking about diversity of class, religion, ethnicity, birth nationality etc - works well when all those groupings buy into the aver-arching national culture. People will naturally rail against groupings that they perceive do not want to engage positively with the national culture, or worse, be actively opposed to it.
