Corporate diversity
Lazy designers and timid communication departments love stock photography, and most of all corporations love safely diverse stock photography.
Bizarrely enthusiastic Smiling LadiesTM aside, I'd like to see an audit done someday of how various ethnicities are portrayed in all these images. From the tableaux we choose, an outside observer might conclude that every group of white friends has one or two black friends, and occasionally the lone female Asian companion. Hispanics, South Asians, and Middle Easterners do not exist at all, of course, unless it's a "special" or "ethnic" communication (generally not in English).
Most tellingly, watch for the placement of people in these Diversity Photos - you're not going to see whitey sitting in the back seat by herself:
