When issues about equality and equity are raised, I tend to respond, in my usual atrabilious fashion, that it's not going to work while the overarching system is attuned to the dominant culture! The US and the UK, for instance, tend to stress individual achievement, even when they try to build a 'team' culture. Japan and Germany tend to lay greater stress on being part of a group and achievement as a group. These approaches are incompatible and in order to succeed in a different culture, you have to forget your own. Not, IMHO, a good look.

You see this in the UK, where much ink is spilled regretting the relative lack of academic success among the Afro-Caribbean community. But these ignore the immense contribution to the arts, music, dance, theatre, athletics and society generally made by people from that community. A culture that apparently values creativity and energy over dry academics and in doing so makes the world a better, brighter, place. Because our dominant culture looks to academic and technical/professional qualifications as the gold standard to determine someone's worth (there are those who would say that as a 'mere' BA I have no business writing on this platform - I can't possibly be good enough). Now clearly, this is a wrong-headed approach, but on the other hand, it's going to be a sod of a job to create an educational and social system that accords equality of esteem to all achievements in whatever field. Even more difficult in the US, where the only measure of worth is wealth.

It's going to be a long slog!