The Possible Proof Of Diversity

Growing up in Park Ridge, Illinois was significantly different from where I was born in Morristown, New Jersey. One of the most startling differences was apparent in the make-up of the student body. In Morristown, I attended an elementary school with a diverse student body; many of my schoolmates were African American and I remember even at a young age, students regardless of race interacting all-together without any sense of stigma attached to it. In that sense, while attending elementary school, since it was the norm to have friends of different races, I did not think very much of my race.

My pre-adolescent years were spent in a community thick with diversity. My friendships were as diverse as the environment in which I lived. It never struck me that racial and ethnic ideals separated people in society. However, upon moving to a predominately white upper-class community I began to question such racial and ethnic ideas. From my adolescent years through today I began noticing that certain people are viewed differently for reasons relating to race and ethnicity. As a result, the most recent community I grew up in has kept me sheltered from aspects of society. As a product of a community where majorities existed, I found myself unexposed to the full understanding of race and ethnicity. Prior to the class I had never fully dealt with issues of race or ethnicity, as a result I wondered why they would be of any importance in my life.

Diversity- recognises that all though people have thing in common they are also different in many ways. Diversity therefore consists of visible and non-visible factors which include personal characteristics such as backgrounds culture, by recognising and understanding our individual differences and embracing them we can create a productive environment in which everybody feels valued.

My community, Lisle, is a small, predominantly Caucasian, middle-class town. I can walk down the hallway and recite the first name, last name, and a fun fact of about seventy percent of my peers. Because of its size, I have has the opportunity to get to know majority of my neighbors and become quite familiar with my environment. While the kindness is in abundance, many of the people I meet in town have a confined perception of society. Entering high school, it did not take long for me to notice how prominent labels and groups were and how I did not fit comfortably into any single category. I liked being on the math team, playing soccer, and spending time with friends. But the academics, athletes, and social crowds were distinct, and people seemed to only interact with those of the same race. Nonetheless, at Lisle High School, we have a common saying, “One Pride” which symbolizes both our school mascot, the lion, as well as the unity of the community. I chose to focus on unity, rather than disparities. Following this mentality has

As I look around, there is diversity everywhere, whether it is in the shopping centers, at church, various events, restaurants, schools or in the workplace. People of every race, color, and creed gather in most of these places. For example, one late Sunday morning my family gathered at a popular American restaurant in our city after church service. It was crowded and diverse inside and out on the patio. Since it was nice and warm outside, we sat on the patio and watched different people walk

I was born in New York City in Harlem hospital on July 26 1989. My parents Gwen and Donald Ames grew up in Pensacola Florida and Norfolk Virginia. They had two different lives growing up. My mom being from Florida mainly grew up around mostly African Americans and in a more country like town. My mom’s father was a pastor at a Baptist church and my grandmother worked for the state. I remember talking to my mom and she said she grew up when segregation was big. She would march and protest against desegregation. My mom went to Florida State where it was predominantly white. She said she had trouble with the transition from being around mostly African American to a school with mostly Caucasian. She felt that she had to prove something. The drive

Diversity can be defined as being different whether it is origin, race, ethnicity, sex, religion, or anything else. A place where diversity based on many factors but especially ethnicity may be experienced is an individuals place of work. Companies do not hire based on your ethnic background. They want to hire people who have the skills they need for the job and are willing to work hard. Unfortunately, as much as people say they do not discriminate there have been people who have come out and said that they felt they were treated unfairly. I decided that I chose to further my knowledge on the Native American culture because I do not know much about it and I know a few people who come from strong backgrounds.

To me, diversity is the idea that there are multiple points of view on a given topic. As everyone has a different input to each subject. In many work fields, diversity is greatly depended upon. In nursing there are great examples of how diversity can help in crucial situations. For example, during a trauma, while everyone is in different placing assisting the patient, the aide is instructed to cut off the clothes, but sometimes there are many different things that need to be done. Each nurse has an idea of the things that they should do and in which order, but sometimes other nurses have better ideas, or they can collaborate and use both ideas at the same time, as this is usually the most efficient way to get everything done.

For a short period of time or what would I say my high school years I was interested in law. I wanted to become a lawyer to fight both cases that impacted my life. When I moved to Pennsylvania and went to school where I was one of the few minorities, I realized that it was different. People’s views were very different. I was able to choose the classes I had wished to take. When learned about this I was more interested in school since this was a chance to experience and get taught subjects I found to be most interesting. Law was in fact my favorite subject. Lucky for me there were multiple classes offered for it. Since my freshman year to my senior year I had ended up taking a total of three Law classes. During this time of my life I had started to feel out of place in the school I had attended. Things that I had said or the way I had dressed was just not what they accepted, for example if I was not on the basketball team there should be no reason for me to be wearing certain brands of sneakers. Diversity never seemed to be accepted. I had the need to balance the culture in my life if that could ever make sense to the person that reads this. When trying to integrate my friends together, it never seemed to end well. My friends in white bodies would constantly talk down to my friends in colored bodies. They would always say negative comments about them. What they considered as

I grew up in a diverse community where not a lot of people were making smart choices and with people who had different appearances than others I went to school with. My family being the only Caucasian people in the neighborhood made us come off as if we were different type of white people.

I still question myself about where I fit in, but I've begun to like the feel of my racial ambiguity. I like when others have to place the guessing game when they look at me. But my four years of living in Iowa did help me find my voice. I used journalism as an outlet to express my views on race and diversity. I understood that many of the kids at my high school wouldn't completely understand until they experienced. But I hoped my voice would at least get them thinking about the things they said. And even the things they've only heard about through the news.

Is America diverse? America might be diverse as a whole but how about in our local communities? There are many ways of defining diversity: ethnicity, culture, religion, language, etc. Diversity is more apparent in our communities now compared to the past, but it doesn’t mean we are fully diverse as individuals. In local communities, people often chose to be close to people with the same ethnicity, religion, background, and culture. For example, on the Eastside of St. Paul resides the majority of the Hmong population in the Twin Cities. They choose to live close to each other because of the same ethnicity, background, and culture. This creates segregation and limits diversity from happening in the local communities. Most people tend to choose

I decided to move to Utah so I escape New York and its social and racial barriers. Utah came with its challenges, not only was I met with a harsh welcoming from its inhabitants. The lack of diversity, I was subjected to the racial comments from some of the residents of Utah County. My sister blamed me for racial remarks and for the lack of trying to blend in with the residents of Utah County. I attended Utah Valley University where I studied for a year and flunk out. This was the result of years of feeling inadequate; my esteem reached a record low.

Diversity is an aspect that I embrace in my life today. The diversity I am referring to does not only entail race, but also my physical and mental differences. Diversity is a broad term that includes my height, age, weight, learning ability, race, eye color, hair color, and religion. Thanks to my family and special advisors, I have grown to accept the things I cannot change about myself. Whether it be my appearance or heart, I have welcomed my diverse nature and I couldn’t be happier.

Diversity is often noticed for its range of options of meaning and the actually use of the word many people often miss understand the true meaning of the word itself. Race is one of the biggest ones. Race has a different impacts in different places all around, in some schools people may not care about the color of one’s skin and then others think it’s a disgrace to have people of that color around their kids. I grew up in a very small town didn’t really think about my classmates being different colored but in the bigger towns it may be a huge deal. Gender sometimes is segregated saying girls are smarter and boys are better at sports and all types of things. Socioeconomic status is what most people think of when they think of diversity. Being in the lower socioeconomic class people tend to think they are not as smart. In the higher socioeconomic class they have more resources to learn and better places to