[nine_k]

This is indeed sad. "Including" different people by constantly paying attention to their differences does not look productive to me.

See, e.g. green-eyed developers (a smaller minority in the world than many others) aren't celebrated; nobody cares what the color of your eyes is. If you paid attention to it, you'd get blank stares from colleagues: "what?"

When this begins to apply to people of different ethnic origins, we will have achieved equality.

[webXL]

I agree completely. I hear "celebrate diversity" all the time, but when you want to get to know someone, you usually try to find things in common. Commonality is just as important.