My Experience With Diversity

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My Experience with Diversity
Diversity has become ubiquitous over the years. It is a value that encompasses differences between groups and individual peoples based on various factors like sex, gender, religion, race, age, sexual orientation, culture, and etcetera. Understanding differences take recognizing and acknowledging them. Elements of diversity are a contemporary “new” norm in today’s society; however, we lived and continue to live in a society where those aspects aren’t still fully understood. This paper and oral presentation will reflect my personal experiences on diversity and how negative perception can affect diversity.
My background started in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York. From a family of my single mother and youngest of …show more content…

I did, however, did understand there were differences. My mother and father were very different individuals. They shared ideals, but clearly objective to some of each other ideals. For example, my father thought it was appropriate to wear uniforms in my elementary years of school. He believes this because it was a standard of his native country, Guyana. My mother, however, didn't see the issue if I didn't wear the uniform, but rather regular clothing. The small differences gravely affected me because I didn’t know on which side I fell on. Do I identify with my American culture first, or my Caribbean culture first? It was hard to me to understand despite living a diverse area with droves of Afro-Caribbean immigrants and Blacks. It was so weird because my father side of the family was extremely diverse where I had Chinese, Portuguese, Black, and even Black British …show more content…

We finally moved to Coney Island ten days shy of the September 11th attacks. Coney Island was different for me because it didn’t have that large diversity like Crown Heights; something I was accustomed to. It was no until I reached high school and I received my education at Abraham Lincoln High School in the neighborhood of Brighton Beach. It was my first time having a true diverse of friends. Our group consist of Puerto Rican, Black, Chinese, Mexican, and Italian. Those years in high school were some of the best years I had because we understood our differences as friends and our difference made out “clique” unique to other

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