Diversity

The more you expose yourself to diversity, the less ignorant you become. Diversity is beneficial, because it combines new ideas and cultures into a society. It provides people with visions to develop, grow, and change. From the early 1900’s to current times, it is shown that diversity has been widely accepted and has beneficial to today’s society.

In businesses, by bringing people together from different environments and qualifications, businesses can more effectively sell to customers from different racial and ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, and gender. Diversity also improves students’ educational experience throughout their school years. Students learn from their fellow classmates whose experiences, values, and viewpoints are different from their own, and these lessons can be shown best in a completely diverse academic and social environment.

In today’s society, if you walk into any building, you will see at least 5 people that are of different race than that of your own, and if they just so happen to say “Hello, Good morning”, you wouldn’t hesitate to say good morning back. Of course, now you don’t think about it, but back in the early 1900’s and you walk in a building, you’ll be lucky to find two people that are of different races than you, and you better believe that they won’t say anything to you, if you were white then they would fear you, if you were black, then you would fear them. Thankfully, we as a society have grown and now all kinds of people for the most part can be in one place without any tension.

Society has come a long way from their fear of diversity. There is an article called the “White Privilege” by Peggy McIntosh. The article states what McIntosh thinks the societal privileges are specifically...

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...is changing and accepting gay individuals and more are coming out to the public with their sexual orientation.

In today’s society diversity is everywhere. Everywhere you look there are people of different gender, race, religion, and backgrounds. Generations that are coming about now don’t care about other people’s races or about sexual orientation. America is supposed to be a country where you can be free to be who you want. It’s so much better living in a place where you can be accepting for whom you are and what you believe in. Kids now don’t care about their friend’s skin color, they care what religion they are, they don’t even care about how they are dressed or how rich or poor they are either. They are just carefree and nonjudgmental and that’s how everyone’s mind should be like. So far society is doing a good job in accepting and progressing as the years pass