Does diverse culture play an important role in developing a solution?

Day 67

Diversity

Today in our class with Dominican Republic we had an interesting conversation on the topic about “what can a poor do to become rich?” I asked every member present for the class this question and recorded their response. Everyone said “they will pray to god”, some solutions included answers about begging for money, avoid eating a meal and saving money, saving and investing money on business, etc. But the strongest response was “praying to god’ and my colleague advised me in Haitian culture they pray to God for all their solutions. In the class session I asked forty students one question that had the potential to having forty different solutions. Because of all the members present in the classroom were culturally monolithic, the responses from the students had “thinking inside the box” effect. 

So here is my question: Does diverse culture play an important role in developing a solution?

In a corporate culture group formation are diversified with all elements like age, experience, culture, values, race, ethnicity, gender, etc. This formation of the diverse group helps the corporate find a solution minimizing the thinking inside the box effect. The coalition of the heterogeneous group will initiate higher awareness, reduced conventional solutions, culture sensitivity, enhance collection of knowledge and skills, higher innovative concepts, and many more aspects of the similar trait. 

What are the drawbacks when every members of the group thinks identical about a problem? Does an effective solution recommend uniformity in the solution or diversity in the solutions? How do you weigh a better solution if all the solutions are the same? What is the quality of the solution offered by non-homogenous group versus homogenous group? How do you measure the quality of the solution if all the members of the group had a carpel thought process? 

“The strength of the solutions is capitalized from the differences rather than the similarities”

~Lenji Jacob 

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