In the article The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality, by Walter Benn Michaels, he is trying to state the point that the world should focus more on celebrating people’s cultures and differences and not focus on what color they are or how much money they have. Michaels audience is all the different people and races that believe they are in a certain class. He wants his audience to see that we should be loving race and identity and not what class someone is based on how much money they have. He tries to appeal to this audience by giving a quote as an example from a famous writer by F. Scott Fitzgerald and a response to this quote by Ernest Hemingway. Fitzgerald says that “the rich are different from you and me” and Hemingway’s response is “yes, they have more money.” By this quote Hemingway is telling Fitzgerald that the only difference between the rich and lower class is the money but not the people. Ethos is what sticks out the most in this article. He credits famous writers and a very famous book, The Great Gatsby. This argument is effective one. He uses good examples to state that people are not different but diverse.  He talking to the people to inform everyone that people should not care about what class they are in, but celebrate that everyone is different and we should love everyone’s race.


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