Diversity training
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Diversity training is training provided by an organization, usually with the stated purpose of treating diversity as an opportunity and promoting the ability of students and workers from a great variety of backgrounds to cooperate productively and make as great a contribution as possible to organizational goals.
Although it is a big business with a profound effect on business, government and education, observers characterize diversity training in very different ways. Its proponents consider it morally right, because it respects diversity. They also view it as economically sound, because it enables organizations to draw on multiplicities of talents and strengths. Its opponents consider it an oppressive ideological re-education tactic, that actually injures the ability of organizations to attain their goals. It has been suggested that diversity training reinforces differences between individuals instead of concentrating on their commonalities, thus helping to further racialize the workplace and creating situations where people "tiptoe" around issues such as how to relate to people of different cultures as opposed to people learning to communicate with and truly understand each other.