While this course concentrates on diversity at the interpersonal level, we must also realize that diversity in business extends to our suppliers as well. It is important for us as individuals, as citizens and as business people to realize that we need to have a society where everyone who has the ability to create wealth also has the opportunity to do so. We must understand that when people from groups that may be different from our own create wealth, they are not taking wealth away from us but are adding wealth to the entire society. A wealthy society can afford to buy the products that your company makes. A wealthy society can afford to pay the taxes to build the schools we send our children to, provide the social programs we demand and maintain the national infrastructure.
Diversity is a concept that applies at the personal level and also at the national level.