What impacts my diversity quotient more positively: an AA friend who grew up middle class, went to an Ivy, and is now a Yuppie who works for a major investment bank; or a ~cousin (white) who grew up in tough area of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, never graduated HS, and now works a service job making around the median NYC income? Diversity is certainly valuable but there are may kinds. In the example, the first guy can provide you with a perspective on some matters (eg, racial); and the second guy can provide completely different (but still enlightening) perspective. Is the AA guy a “bro” or URM? The other guy? Do you define it like a Senator (or judge or something) once defined porn: “I know it when I see it?”