Diversity and its Impact on Communities and Businesses

Diversity means a group of people who are different from other people to most people; however diversity isn’t a group of people because each and every one of us are unique through age, gender, races, ideas, imaginations, opinions, ethnics, religion, cultural beliefs, special talents, and a variety of other unique things.

Diversity can offer many opportunities to businesses owners because as more immigrants enter the U.S. the more diverse our nation becomes one of the things immigrants bring is their language. It is hard to communicate with people who are not familiar with the English language because some countries don’t offer a second language to learn. If our country was not diverse we would lack the communication with other countries. If businesses hire people who know how to speak a foreign language then businesses would have a greater opportunity to communicate with customers and other businesses.

Dylan Mahalingam was born in New Hemisphere, when Dylan was 8 years- old his family took a trip to India, this was the first time Dylan had to witness poverty. Dylan had witnessed families working onerous tasks each day. At the age of 9, Dylan co-founded the Lil’ MDGs (United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals), which is a nonprofit international development and youth empowerment organization and an initiative of Jayme’s Fund. The Lil’ MDGs mission was to leverage the power to digital media to engage children in the MDGs. Dylan’s organization caused more than 3 million children around the world to work on a variety of issues. More than 24,000 volunteers from 41 countries joined the organization. Dylan’s belief in helping people impacted our community.

Alexandra Scott, was diagnosed with neuroblastoma (a type of childhood cance...

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... the Civil Rights Movement.” The cause of the major civil rights movement was Rosa Parks not giving up her sit on a public bus. Since Rosa Parks was African she and her family had to move Detroit, Michigan to escape racists, but Rosa Parks has impacted the communities to accept other Africans and that Africans have every right to do what they wish.

Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929, in Georgia. Martin Luther King was most famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech and involvement of the civil right movements. He inspired many people to accept Africans for who they were and allow them to go anywhere they wished. He believed that accepting Africans as equal was the right thing to do and that Africans were the same as whites. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated. 46 years later, our nation has accepted Africans as equal people and citizens.