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Abstract

Many organizations have instituted policies of tolerance as official parts of their corporate or agency diversity and inclusion initiatives, and many people have become accustomed to using the term synonymously with acceptance and inclusion. Tolerance, however, despite the likely intended meaning of the term, is a white-centric artifact developed by the empowered in a dominant-subordinated culture, with the word, at its very roots, making the implication that people of color and other minority groups are to be tolerated-accepted against the standards and norms in a culture of eurocentrism and racial privilege. Essentially, attitudes, language, and behaviors of tolerance include a group of behaviors, such as colorblindness, colorism, sameness, centralization, credentializing, and tokenization, among others, that espouse tolerance and therefore, instead of diversity, equity, and inclusion promote toleration and exclusion. We introduce ethnoconvenience as one series of such attitudes and behaviors and define and describe what warrants ethnoconvenience and how it is related to yet differentiated from the other language and practices of tolerance in today's immortalized dominant-subjugated U.S. culture.