Mass Communication focuses precisely on that vast and complicated web of public discourse where the idea of diversity is formed, and the particulars are worked out. Ethnic Studies is a discipline formed to view the experience of diversity as formed in historical, economic, and political contexts. We are becoming an increasingly visual culture. In part the term is meant to emphasize that we are going to look at the idea from several different perspectives . That is to say we are going to think about, consider, and talk about the phenomenon philosophically, from our different vantage points, not dissect it analytically, like a hard, cold, objective science.
Diversity is that way, now.
In your daily life. At least in California. Although in the visual sense it's race, in the sense of skin color, that we see as diversity in our daily life, clearly it is more than that, and things more subtle than that. I am not just thinking of what we call culture. And I don't think anyone can avoid these issues today.