Everyone is unique and hence the notion of privileges for minority status based on numbers alone is not meaningful.
A privilege can only be extended if such a privilege benefits *everyone* directly or indirectly.
Countries and enterprises that embrace diversity has the maximum chance to succeed in today's competitive world of information powered by internet.
So embracing diversity will mean creating a system of government that offers the best chance for equal opportunity for all.
Striving to provide equal opportunity for all does not mean allocation of quota and entitlement for any minority group which can only create losers out of everyone. Here I am not interested in talking about vote-bank driven policies of a corrupt enterprise or government.
As an example, striving to provide equal opportunity means identification of talent wherever it may reside. It also mean finding ways to educate the unorganized sector and set up competitive examination to search for talent in various categories that does not create undue advantage to someone who is educated in the organized sector.
If people could value commitment to excellence, equal opportunity for all and embracing of diversity, the problems of today can be easily overcome.
Recently I was at someone's house and saw part of a delightful movie playing in their TV. I myself do not watch movies but this one was very interesting. It is based on a true story of how two village youths were identified across India that ended up joining the major league baseball team in USA (Pittsburgh) within 10 months of being found. They did not even play cricket, were not sportsmen and yet had tremendous power to their pitch.
They went to USA without knowing how to even speak English or know the rules of the baseball game. They overcame many hurdles to actually being recruited to major league team and needless to say achieving millions of dollars to their net worth.
Movie is called
Million Dollar Arm.
These two youths were identified by proactive efforts to reach them. While the idea for such a search was more of a stunt, it did yield extraordinary talent in a very short time.
We need to abolish the notion of minority based quota and instead embrace equal opportunity for all which will benefit everyone.
