Sxsw Reflection Paper

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As a volunteer during the annual SXSW festival hosted in Austin, Texas, I was introduced and worked alongside people whose beliefs and experiences are very diverse from those of my own.
Initially, those who had volunteered from all around the country and from other parts of the world, were gathered for a series of preliminary meetings to familiarize ourselves with both the chiefs of the festival, as well as those who volunteered to participate in the event. As we were being partitioned into our individual rooms, my first reaction was that of the diverse group of people attending. These volunteers gathered from all over the world, to be a part of a singular social event, incorporating people of different social experiences and beliefs.
During these preliminary meetings, my initial feeling, was how will this diverse set of people perceive me and my background. As these first set of meetings moved along, people of Muslim, Jewish, and Atheist backgrounds began to work alongside each other, in …show more content…

The people around me became the orchestra of diversity, but when I talked to each one of them, they would break the music and I would hear the individual instrument they portrayed, like Sam the French foreign exchange girl. I would like to mention this person as the highlight of the orchestra, she became the voice of the volunteers when handling the speakers, panels, and various activities monitoring our part of the festival. Sam wore her country on her shoulder and was proud, she would teach her language and show the differences between our many different cultures. She had even brought new information from music to clothing and everything in-between. As the orchestra came back into focus and the whole symphony could be heard again with every instrument playing their part, each musician enthusiastic at what was the event of the

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