Rethinking DEI for Europe | Laurent Muzellec & Olamide Obadina | TEDxTrinityCollegeDublin

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Around the world, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion—DEI—has become the dominant framework for addressing fairness and representation. Yet DEI was born in a very specific context: the American civil rights movement and the United States’ unique racial history. Today, that same framework is facing unprecedented pushback in its country of origin. Nearly half of American voters supported an openly anti-DEI presidential candidate, and major corporations are downsizing or abandoning DEI departments. What was meant to promote inclusion has paradoxically become a source of division, antagonising large segments of society and failing to generate broad-based legitimacy. Despite this backlash, Europe has rapidly imported DEI language, tools, and assumptions—with little questioning of whether they fit our cultural traditions, institutional systems, or social realities. Europe’s universalist heritage, from Enlightenment humanism to the post-war integration project, emphasises shared citizenship and c

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