What We Got Wrong About Diversity

I'll quote Chrystia Freeland: "The UHNWIs themselves describe the same experience. As Glenn Hutchins, cofounder of the private equity firm Silver Lake, puts it, "A person in Africa who runs a big African bank and went to Harvard Business School has more in common with me than he does with his neighbors, and I have more in common with him than I do with my neighbors." The circles he moves in, Hutchins explains, are defined by "interests" rather than "geography": "Beijing can look a lot like New York. You see the same people, you eat in the same restaurants, you stay in the same hotels. We are much less place-based than we used to be."

Intrests, not ethnicity form the new social boundaries of today's modern society. I see more blacks, no, Africans, at Davos than in NY/SF/LA firms. But they happen to have more in common with the Davos set than their average country folk. Also, what do people mean when they say "black" in America. Surely an African elite in the US woun't be in the same startum as the other "native" blacks? And also they exists in different stratums. Can we explain this?? Heard a proffessor once asked a black student to comment on the urban experience, only to later learn the student prepped in Switzerland and was the son of a bussiness magnate in Africa, ouch.