The Importance Of Diversity

Adam Amble

Stephen Rendahl

Joshua Young

Communication 102

23 November 2014

Diversity and How We View It

When i hear the term diversity, I cannot help to think of the variety in culture, the sense of people congregating together to form one diverse group. This one diverse group i believe to be the heart of diversity and all things different. For a long time, people have believed that diversity and the form of being different to one and another is not good, it means that they are not like you, have no relation to you, and just someone you cannot relate to, so you don 't talk to them. People are often discouraged from speaking with a diverse group of people, and i know, i feel the same way sometimes. But the act of being diverse lessens the divide in our social understandings of each other. I will tell you through my explanations of what it means to have positive diversity and how we can strive to be better.

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