Connection To Diversity

Thousands of students are becoming more educated than ever by attending this university. I thank her so much, without her I don’t know what school I’ll be attending till this day. Her decisions and actions in this world are still changing lives in our

She will help students in the long run change their perspective and change their

Growing up different wasn’t always easy for me. My dad, Anthony Smigelski Jr., worked as an active duty officer in the Coast Guard and my mom, Claudia Smigelski, worked as a registered nurse. In 1976 it was illegal to perform an abortion in New Orleans, Louisiana so my parents, who were unsuccessful having their own children, moved to Louisiana in hopes they would have a better change to adopt a baby. On April 2, 1976 they got their wish; I was delivered to their home in Gretna, LA when I was only 10 days old. It wasn’t long after my parents got me that my father was transferred to Governor’s Island, NY when I was two years old.

Despite the abundance of equality in America, prejudices still lurk beneath it. Growing up as a first-generation Asian, I encountered many obstacles socially. Though I wasn’t necessarily “bullied,” there still was an apparent barrier between me and the other kids. I simply didn’t fit in, and my appearance played a major role in it-- I just didn’t look like the others.

As a gay Asian man from a low-income and immigrant family, I have obtained an intersection of various perspectives. I have had many obstacles in my life, such as coming out, struggling financially, and helping my parents navigate this country. These obstacles have provided perspectives that many individuals may not have acquired. They motivate me to help those with similar circumstances to lead happy lives. Providing these different perspectives to Temple University’s student body allows the community to see the diverse aspects of others and to understand more of the various circumstances and complexity of human life.

What is diversity? Diversity is differences in tastes. Diversity is strongly determined based on many different factors. One of these factors is age. Movies made in the 70’s are completely different from more recent movies made recently.

Summary: How Diversity Make Us Smarter In this essay, “How Diversity Make Us Smarter,” Katherine Phillips illustrates how diversity functions effectively in a group, organization, and society. Philips states diversity has several advantages, such as enhancing creativity, evoking more thoughts, changing behavior, and promoting hard work. Philips supports the advantages by showing the positive outcomes come from different university researches and studies.

It is important to understand our diverse America because every day our population starts growing from people with different backgrounds. Our schools, jobs, and parks there will be people with different culture, religions, beliefs, or color skin. It’s important to understand our diversity because that’s what unites us as a great country accepting those despite where they’re from or color skin. As we grow, we want to teach the younger generation that it’s important to accept diversity and regardless of one's background we are all the same as humans. If you think about it America was made from descendant immigrants who have been here for generations and leaving their print of their culture every day as America accepting their background because

Chapter nine deals with two main subjects: diversity and communication. We saw in class and in the book, brief definitions and problems related to diversity as: discrimination, prejudice, stereotypes, and actions to overcome those issues. In communication, we went over tips and ideas to improve our relations and conversations with people in the daily basis, and in situations where criticism and anger are present. College as brought me an enrichment experiencing regarding diversity. I have been able to relate with people with very diverse backgrounds and places.

As part of her final semester

My childhood was lost because of this, but since coming out a new world has opened. When I started my freshman year of high school I was quiet, extremely introverted, depressed, and always anxious. I didn’t how to make friends, I had no friends, and I was at a new school. My world was turned upside down, but for the first time in my life, I could be who I wanted to be, which was myself. I didn’t want to trapped inside myself anymore and didn’t want to be afraid of what the world could do to me.

I attended the Diversity Workshop on Wednesday, January 17, 2018, at 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, with Tabatha L Jones Jolivet, Ph.D., titled “Reclaiming My Time: Leveraging Scared Agency and Spiritual Wealth in the Face of Imposter Syndrome and Stereotype Threat”. I thought this was an inspiring diversity workshop. My reaction to it was, “okay, I feel like I now have a few more tools in my belt to help me grow my skills in diversity.” Dr. Jolivet was very knowledgeable in her field of higher education. My favorite part was when she, owned her background and opened with that spiritual song.

To be aware of one’s own social location will bring forth an understanding of one’s privilege and/or oppression in society. Social location includes certain identity traits such as age, gender, race, and sexuality. I am a nineteen-year-old Caucasian female. I am a heterosexual, able-bodied, Catholic, and was raised in a small town in Ontario, Canada. I am from a middle class family, and currently attend university.

Diversity may mean different things to different people. To me, diversity is exactly that, being different and unique. Diversity makes the world a beautiful place to be, and full of interesting and different people. The beauty of human civilization lies in its diverse groups and cultures.

Notwithstanding the sexuality, it’s similar to any African American that was raised in the continental United States. It’s understandably that some don’t get it or wish to portray it is as “somehow deviant and needs more explanation than heterosexuality.” It is impossible to avoid the obvious, which is to say that each of us has been impacted by years of societal privilege and class. These bias viewpoints have helped shape our perspective on women, men, parenting, careers and acceptable power dynamics. It would be easy for any man or women to dismiss the