Conversely, affirmative action policies would potentially have the perverse effect of undermining diversity in the sciences if net peer effects are negative in university-level STEM courses.
In an age where colleges have added economic diversity to their pursuit of ethnic and regional diversity, does the national explosion of Advanced Placement courses actually undermine intellectual diversity on campus, which is at the heart of the college experience?
The National Union of Journalists said the closure would undermine "media diversity" in the country's Midlands region.
He said imposing a "predominantly English" requirement on signs would undermine ethnic diversity in Flushing, which was once predominantly Jewish and Italian, but shifted when Asian immigrants arrived, first from Japan, then from Taiwan and, in the 1980s, from mainland China.
If this is the case, does the common prosperity of all of the ethnic groups point towards greater convergence, but also undermine the diversity within the unified multi-ethnic structure?
That's good news, since the controversy around Mapplethorpe in the United States has tended to undermine the diversity of his practice – which took in not only multiple kinds of subject matter but diverse forms of image-making, including Polaroids and colour photography.
Much more often, however, the algorithmic mechanisms that shape what is available to users of digital platforms are driven exclusively by an advertising logic that undermines diversity and reproduces the social capital of those with power.
This is unacceptable and it undermines the diversity and tolerance we should instead be celebrating.
