Analysis Of Dr Luther King Jr's I Have A Dream Speech

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In Dr. Marylin Sanders Mobley talk she discussed the importance of culture and diversity in today’s society. She teaches us that there is a paradox in diversity, she states that the diversity paradox is the idea that some people believe that we have done enough already with diversity and other people say there still is a lot to do and we need to do more for diversity and inclusion. Until this paradox is fixed then we can’t move forward because if not everyone is working together for a common goal and half of the population does nothing and continues to believe that there is nothing more to do for diversity, then there will always be a block and separation in society. If as a society we cannot agree and come together to fix this paradox, then …show more content…

Luther King Jr’s I have a Dream Speech. I think she grew up with her parents telling her that if there needs to be a difference made it takes everyone to recognize the problem and then work together to change it. Her background makes her want to educate and help fix the diversity problem because her parents worked so hard to get the rights they deserved now shoes working it gain the social equality everyone deserves. She also educates the audience on the problem of having a cultural lens. A culture lenses is what we look through every day when we read life whether is reading another person, a book, a move, or an environment, it is how we view the world through our own cultural identity. We look as others and understand and interpreted their culture by looking through our own lenses and by doing so we cannot actually understand another person’s culture because we cannot see the world through their lenses. The idea of lenses is important to know especially going into teaching because it is our job to educate everyone no matter race or culture. As teachers we have to find a way to eliminate our cultural lenses in order to effectively teach the wide range of diversity in

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