“Employee demographics are “diverse,” sort of—I would guess, based on a visual survey of the cafeteria at lunchtime, that about a third of the staff is South Asian, a third is East Asian, and a third is white.”

This part of the article bothered me. Why was diverse placed in quotation marks? Aren’t South Asians and East Asians considered minorities?

Also South Asians are a very diverse group in it itself. As are East Asians. Many different languages and cultures….

So why was diverse in quotation marks? Why did the author say “sort of”???