Diversity In Today's Society

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On a day to day basis, people judge others based on their appearance, race, religion, sexuality, and morals. People in todays’ world bring others down and decrease the outlook on themselves by being very crucial. There are people out in the world who do not care how they treat people. Society always brings problem when it comes to judging. People’s first impression about us have an impact of how we look at ourselves. When I was in middle school and high school, I was being judged, even by friends. It hurt my feelings at the time because people’s opinions affected the way I viewed myself. If you don’t know the person, get to know them before you blurt out your opinions based on false accusations. Everyone is born different whether its race, …show more content…

People judge others based on how they dress distinctive foods, origin, family and cultural heritage. What society doesn’t understand is that people come from all over the world with different backgrounds. Not everyone is the same. Society is influenced by ethnic diversity in several ways to draw so much attention in today’s world. Media doesn’t make it any better. When people travel to certain places in the world, they will look at you different because of certain foods, clothes, attitudes, health and so on. Different countries believe in different ways. Different ethnic locations have ways in which they approach food and how they choose it. People come from certain ethnic backgrounds and have ways that they determine attitudes and outlooks towards life, people, health and not forgetting food choices. With society judging different ethnic backgrounds, it causes hate crimes and …show more content…

With everything going on media it makes conflicts a lot worse. Yes knowing what goes on in the world makes a huge difference because there are people’s lives on the line, but with the news explaining situations to make it seem that it is a lot worse, people go in outrage. Also, that is another reason why people’s lives are in danger even more of the innocent people. The media likes to escalate situations and that is how conflicts get started. For instance in today’s society, there news everyday about Isis Bombing, Blacks killing police officers, bullying to an extent where someone was put in a hospital. Society wants news to get out there on TV to tell people about what happened to their son or daughter, which I completely understand, but with all the publicity it will only become much worse because not everyone is there to know the story and when something is not mentioned or it is mentioned but in a way that it is not the truth, the situation becomes a big deal. People put themselves at risk. We can’t change a person, we definitely cannot change society. “The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses (Malcolm

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