Describe how theories and approaches to diversity have changed over time
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Early theories about diversity favored the concept that some groups were superior to others, or that the majority group should be the metric by which others should be measured. Over time, it was recognized that cultures are not more or less superior; they are simply different, and the actions by schools and other organizations affect them differently. The genetic deficit theory was an all-out racist one, promoting "whites" as superior to all others. The cultural deficit theory was more subtle: it did not claim that whites were superior; rather, the other cultural groups were not achieving at the same level in the white school system because their cultures had disadvantages compared to the white majority culture. The eugenics movement arose from beliefs like this. More contemporary theories hold that differences in school achievement result from differences in cultures, not deficiencies, and that there is a mismatch between students' cultures and that of the schools (cultural difference theory). Within this concept is the concern that there is an advantage to maintaining the status quo; creating privilege for some groups while curtailing privilege for others
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