[dijit]

To be perfectly fair with the parent; It _is_ a very western ideal about heterogeneity being highly valued.

I think tying emotions to it does us little favours - a prominent successful country that does not value heterogenity at all is Japan.

Does Japan outcompete per capita?

(The answer is no).

Not sure if there are other examples of note here.

[dagmx]

There's a difference between not valuing heterogeneous work forces versus valuing homogenous ones. The parents comment is the latter.

Also you have to view the concept of heterogeneous work forces relative to the make up of the countries demographics makeup.

A diverse country having a non diverse work force make up is odd statistically.

[dijit]

> A diverse country having a non diverse work force make up is odd statistically.

I agree, but I would also add that a company exhibiting the exact diversity representation as the surrounding country is also very odd, statistically.