tokenism
Noun
A policy of formally complying with efforts to achieve a goal by making small, token gestures; especially to hire a minimal number of ethnically diverse or disadvantaged people.
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We know the prime minister regards environmental matters as mere tokenism. But we at least expected his ritual once-a-year speech on the issue.
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Contemporary museums, they need to stop tokenism. Collect an Iranian artist here, a South African artist there or whatever. They need to really begin to try to properly take on … what is contemporary culture today?
This has to be meaningful contribution and participation – tokenism will only come to bite us in the future.
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tokenisms