DIVERSITY
11-29-05
Diversity
to me means understanding that each individual is unique, no limit to race or
ethnicity. Diversity is also to
accept a person for who they are.
Understanding and accepting people for our differences, that’s what is
really important. Give people the
benefit of the doubt and give them a chance. I came from a very diverse
community where everyone talks to everyone. No one excludes anyone. I moved from Orange, Mass to Deerfield, Mass. I enrolled into a school, which seemed to be diverse. I came into school and realized that no one likes anyone, no one gets along. I was like “Wow this school is not diverse”. I wrote an essay on diversity to see if it would help any. Well, it didn’t. I wanted to make a difference. People at Frontier were not diverse. I went to my English teacher and tried to talk to him. He understood when I said “uniqueness, accepting people, recognizing our differences and the talent that is seen and unseen all day and all night. But it didn’t help this situation. I left that school very disappointed. The uniqueness of ones ways is
beautiful in a lot of ways. People should respect one and other for who they
are whether it’s race, gender, sexual orientation, religious and
non-religious. Diversity is a state
of difference. In the end I wish people could be
more diverse, which is as I would say “understanding and respecting people
for our differences.” It would help everybody. It also would help the society
which as Sandice King would say, “is a sphere with no beginning and no end”
That is what I think about diversity. |