It&#x27;s hardly clear to me that ethnic diversity helps in any way for most companies. Several people at my current company told me they were excited that I&#x27;d be providing diversity. I asked them what they thought that would bring them, and after pressing the issue I realized they had no clue.<p>I have no clue either. Some unique perspectives I bring: I favor rigid APIs over close team communication, I favor Bayesian statistics over frequentist, and I&#x27;m working on convincing folks that the JVM is actually a great platform to deploy code on. Are these technical matters something that a certain ethnic group (different from mine) is uniquely single minded about?<p>I&#x27;ve been the bringer of diversity for most of my career. And I can&#x27;t think of a time when it&#x27;s actually mattered.