What is diversity?

And I don't mean the dance group that won BGT.

I've just spent the last 4 hours filling out an on-line application form for the Police for a back office role and the latest question is thus:

In no more than 500 words please answer the following:
What is your understanding of diversity?

I've just completed 1000 words on how my previous employment history meets the skills, experience and experience for this role, I've written another 1000 words on previous job roles and responsibilities, now this. I'm a bit stumped and need a bit of help getting going with this question.

Cheers.

its the same for police here. theyre all very 'pc', pardon the pun, and are all about respecting diversity and being all open and inclusive. they just wanna know that you respect and understand what it means to be different and that everyones equal, blah blah blah

Champ Kind: What in the hell's diversity?
Ron Burgundy: Well, I could be wrong, but I believe diversity is an old, old wooden ship that was used during the Civil War era.

yeah that would be a good example. you were able to take their disability into account, respect it and empower them to do all that was in their physical capabilty and improve on it

Diversity is walking down High Holborn on a summers day and seeing women from short, dark ones to tall blonde ones that you would eat glass to shag.

Ahhhhhh diversity........

EDIT: Far too controversial a topic for me to get involved in.

"I like them black girls
I like them white girls
I like them Asian girls
I like them mixed race girls
I like them Spanish girls
I like them Italian girls
I like the French girls
And I like Scandinavian girls
I like them tall girls
I like them short girls
I like them brown hair girls
I like them blonde hair girls
I like them big girls
I like them skinny girls
I like them carrying a little bitty weight girls

Now baby (baby)
I've got alot of love to give
And i've been over
over-subscribed with relationships
See you've got (you've got)
A little thing i haven't seen before
But i must warn ya
That i can't help but play around for sure, for sure
Because

I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls

Now maybe (maybe)
I can learn to settle down one day
But right now
I'm living life to mess around and play
See you've got (you've got)
A little thing i haven't seen before
But i must warn ya
That i can't help but play around for sure
I did it before

I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls
I get all the girls i get all the girls"

That my son...Is diversity!

I had to for my job, tell them what they want to hear.

society is a joke nowadays
cant have a job beacuse you punched a guy in a wheelchair

the fact he only has a slight limp due to a minor accident at work, and is using the wheelcair as a cover so he can claim dole and disability allowance, and you only punched him cause he kept grabbing your wifes arse in a pub and when you confronted him about it, he stood up out the wheelchair and started pusing you around, has nothing to do with it, 

alright, not a great example, but all the facts have to be looked at, and this doesnt happen in the real world

get a job as a desk jockey for the police and you ll be branded a dirty pig like the rest of them, like when they arrest scum of the earth for beating up their wife or stealing cars, and get away with it because of a "technicallity" is laughable

sorry, bit of a rambling rant there but im sure theres a point somewhere

LMC

Well the question is preceeded by the following:

This area is assessed throughout the recruiting process. If the standard is not met, the applicant will be considered for rejection.

So it doesn't matter if I'm perfectly suited for the role in terms of skillset, experience, attitude, previous employment history, if I haven't experienced cultural/lifestyle/gender/sexuality (etc) diversity or can't explain it in a way that satisfies the selction board I'm fooked.

I'm struggling to think of an occasion where I've experienced this though.

Your best friend is gay and asian? at least mine was....so just say that