Yep. You guessed it. The pressure is on for organizations to appear diverse. And they'll photoshop if necessary.
http://www.11points.com/Misc/11_Photos_Where_Black_People_Were_Awkwardly_Photoshopped_In_or_Out
Creating Diversity with Photoshop
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What's worse: Photoshopping a picture to make it LOOK like a multicultural photo, or one that is completely staged with people of different races and physical abilities gathered in one place? I've noticed that UNI's publications have some pretty pathetic attempts at making our campus look diverse by having pictures of a black kid and a white kid playing frisbee, or some one in a wheelchair reading a book by a fountain. I can't decide which one is worse.
I do know, however, that this top 11 is pretty stinkin' funny. What were these people thinking when they finished their photoshop job? "naw, that's good enough"?
A good point brought up by this site, however, was keenly mentioned that " black people and white people still don't seem to like taking photographs together". If this weren't true, such a website wouldn't exist because there wouldn't be a need to photoshop a black person in or out, or there wouldn't be a need to stage a diverse photograph. I think this could boil down to our comfort levels with outgroup members. A photograph is such a hard-copy kind of thing, that we may not like taking pictures with people from other races because then there would be a hard copy of us with some one from another race. Other ingroup members could see this and think less of us. We may not have issues with a brief conversation with an outgroup member, but taking a picture? Now that's pushing the limit!