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.
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.
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.