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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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CMV: Ethnic/Racial diversity for its own sake is unnecessary.

**CONTEXT:** America. I work at a small company with 10 full-time employees. I am one of 3 men, and the other 7 employees are women. All of us are white (one of the men, our CEO, is half-Asian). On our website and our other online listings wherein we have pictures of our team, we've received multiple comments and outreach demanding "more women of color" or "more ethnic diversity" in our staff. I think that that's complete bullshit.

**OPINION: Ethnic and Racial diversity in business for the sake of having some "people of color" is unnecessary, petty, and could even be considered racist.**

**We** shouldn't have to hire anyone based on their skin color or ethnic background because **you** think we're "too white." We hire people based on their skills, their ability to fit into our culture, and their personalities **only.** Whether or not they're white has no bearing on their hiring status.

Some people in my company have gone so far as to specifically target the local university's minority groups with recruitment materials and internship openings, just to appease these online demands, and I think that's wrong. Excluding white people from even applying for certain positions is the **definition of racism.** Everyone should have equal opportunity to apply, interview and work with us regardless of their race. If it turns out that a new hire is white, it's because he or she had the best skill, best fits into the company culture, and has the best personality.

If there was a company which was completely owned and run by black people for instance, I wouldn't demand for them to hire more white people because "it's too black," That sounds ridiculous, right? That's more than ridiculous, it's racist. Just the same, demanding that we hire more non-white people because we're "too white" is ridiculous and racist.

**EDIT**: Our company culture, into which candidates for any position must fit: **HEART**. **H**ear (listen to your team and your customers) **E**nthusiasm (energy, excitement) **A**ttitude (positivity, optimism) **R**elax and have fun (casual, comfortable) **T**enacity (strong belief in yourself and the company's products).
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You may be hiring people on merit in perfectly good faith, but unconscious bias is a very real thing, especially when "fitting in with the culture" is one of the criteria. 

Music critics played the exact same piece of music by the same women wearing different outfits gave consistently higher marks to the woman wearing a concert gown. 

Have you tried hiring completely blind?