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"Diversity training." What comes to your mind when you read those words? a) Listening to boring speakers who use meaningless buzzwords like "cultural competence" and "tolerance." b) Participating in awkward workshop exercises. Privilege walk, anyone? c) Learning painfully obvious things, like "racism is bad." As if you didn't already know that. d) All of the above. It's no wonder diversity fatigue is sweeping across America.  Read more >

The other day I was watching "The Agency," an addictive new reality show on VH1 about the agents and models who work for Wilhelmina Models. The agents were pitching a new client, Bongo Jeans, and brought a few different models to the client to be considered for a new ad campaign. I was struck by how many times the phrase "all-American" was used. The client kept saying that they were looking for a guy and a girl, both of whom had an "all-American look." You can pretty much imagine what kind of phenotype they meant by "all-American." (And if you can't imagine, you can watch the episode here.)  Read more >