Diversity...What Is That?

What is diversity? Diversity is when you have a group of different races and cultures come together in one setting. I think that diversity is something that everyone should be introduced to at some point of his or her life. Diversity is a concept that has played a very important role in my life, especially growing up in a community that wasn’t very diverse and switching to a community that school system embraced diversity to the fullest. By having diversity introduced into my life though out my high school years I was able to expect change as an good thing and realize that race is a physical trait and doesn’t make you who you are, delvop an new thought process and new views and I was able to comfortably interact with people different from myself and make new friends.

When I was growing up I spend a lot time with my family and the local kids that grew up on my street and I grew up in a small city that was mostly populated with African Americans or blacks; there was barely any whites or any other race. So in a sense you can say that that was all I knew growing up. Although we grew up doing a lot of different activities like dance and music lessons I was always surrounded with family and kids that were the same as me. When I was younger I remember seeing other kids that were different then me but I never spoke to them and in a sense kept my distance from them. From the time I started school and though out middle school I was in school with the people I knew even though there was other races (mostly white) we never really mixed the two groups. There was a since of separation between the two and I never thought that this was a problem.

When I entered into high school my mother had decided to move to a new city. On the first day I ...

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... and feel more comfortable around her. When the paper was done Jen and me had became really good friend actually best friends. And just by writing that paper and taking the time to get to know some one that was different from me I was able to meet a friends. When this was all done I became a more open person and began to join different clubs like the International student Alliance. I wanted to know more about other people’s cultural backgrounds and where they came from. I also received a chance join other student on a missionary trip to another country and emerge myself in a different cultural.

It all started with a simple paper about another student that helped me to open up to others that were different from me. Through that experiences I gained a new thought process and views on other unlike myself. Finally I have gained many new friends that I will always have.