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My Personal Reflection Of Diversity

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Diversity This paper is going to cover my personal reflection of what diversity means to me. I will discuss the messages I learned as a child about various minorities and majorities, and how my views have changed since then. I will also describe a situation in which diversity directly influenced my life. This paper will also include reflections of the common read novel The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates. I will detail how the main characters experienced diversity. I will give examples of how diversity changed their lives and which person I personally related to the most. Personal Reflection Diversity to me means a large spectrum of differences. In a population, it means an abundance of differing cultures, races, ethnicities, and …show more content…

I believed diversity was something we should want. As an adult I can better understand why many felt the way they did. Through their own historical trauma, many in my community did not feel diversity was a good thing because they were taught all white people equal oppressors. As I got older, I realized the people there purposefully segregated themselves. Sixteen minutes away from my home was a placed called Chalmette. This town had the larger white community that was upper middle class to poverty. 12 minutes away was Little Vietnam, where the majority were of Vietnamese immigrants and their children who all lived on the poverty line. Then there were six neighborhoods, including Plum Orchard that the majority were African American. This sent the message that people seem to prefer the company of those most like themselves. Plum Orchard had five white households when we moved in. Two were elderly people, Maw-maw Elsie and Mr. Eddie, who had been there since the late forties. Maw-maw Elsie passed away and Mr. Eddie moved to be closer to family. Then there were three households with children, all single mothers, and walking the poverty line. Over the course of a few years, they all moved away due to the increase in gang activity. My family stayed until 2002 when our home was robbed. As of today, the messages

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