"Colorblind casting" is the term Hollywood uses to explain an attempt to diversify the faces we see on-screen.
Its colonial history has led to dual-nationality French citizens who speak many languages, straddle multiple cultures and diversify the face of France.
And as their customer bases diversify, they face greater exposure to the economic climate.
Aditya Mittal, chief financial officer, said the London Mining acquisition would help ensure that "our iron ore base is further diversified in the face of tighter supply for raw materials".
In the following decades, magazines diversified, with The Face debuting in 1980, Entertainment Weekly in 1990, Wired in 1993.
Arguably, Nicolas' masterstroke in turning Smiley from a dying post-rave non-brand into a multi-million pound toys 'n' Hindmarch operation was his decision to diversify the smiley face and turn it instead into a sad face, or an angry face, or a sick face, or a laughing face.
While companies may once have diversified their suppliers in the face of supply risk, the systematic impact of climate change across coffee-growing regions requires a radical rethink of production models and sourcing relationships, according to Alejandro Litovsky, the founder and CEO of the Earth Security Group.
Japan's old growth-at-any-cost school of management assumed that it was always better to diversify than to face stagnation or (heaven forbid) redundancies even if that meant entering fields where the company had no production facilities, no technology, no suppliers, no customers and no competence whatsoever.
While Hilliard never competed in the Olympics herself she's proud to see that the faces of elite gymnastics have diversified a bit since her time.
Cisco looks like a company facing redoubled competition just as it diversified in the wrong directions and misread the greatest shift in business technology: consumerization.
