Diversity and Inclusion Education in America - Essay Example

The way I see it, the problem with Foxconn is not diversity and inclusion based, but simply the violation of human rights. Diversity and inclusion mean that members of a minority group are being discriminated against. In the Foxconn case, it is the Chinese maltreating other Chinese of all age groups, genders, and persuasions, so the group is pretty much homogeneous. The problem is human rights, but the source is economic. One would wonder why the maltreated workers continue to choose to stay despite the subhuman conditions. This may be traced to China’s migrant worker problem. Because despite the poor pay, factories in the cities continue to attract poor farmers because wages there are still better than the meager and uncertain income in rural life (Wang, 2005).

It appears, therefore, that the D&I deficiency is not with Foxconn, but with Apple, the American company that subcontracts Foxconn. Apple has its iPad made in China because the labor costs are much lower than in the U.S. Apple could have given many unemployed Americans jobs, instead of propagating human rights violations by moving its production to China.  If workers in China are paid below what their basic needs require, it is because Apple had wanted to save on cost, and would contract with the lowest bidding supplier.