Reflection #4 EDF 2085

Shaniece N. Jeffers
EDF 2085
September 9, 2009
Reflection #4
Prof. Joseph McNair

Human diversity is the difference between a group or set of individuals that have their own distinguishing personality and biological genes that helps separate them from other people and cultures. All of us were not made up the same way we all have different characteristic, whether it our facial composer, body structure, skin color, and hair type. We are all one but we have our own lifestyle and beliefs that helps separate us from one another. Even though society can bring about changes to these genetics by doing surgeries, the real person underneath the skin will always be you. No matter how we perceive life, the world is always going to be diverse no matter we may go.
We have to understand that America is getting more diverse than even before, people now want to live the American dream. People are running away from exile, crossing sea, and dying just to life the American way in order to help feed, make a better life and protect their families. My parents moved from where they were born just so that my siblings and I could be American citizens, so that our lives could be easier. So diversity is nothing new to me because most of the Caribbean is diverse in its own unique way. Remember that diversity is a commitment to a certain group in which they are made up of their own unique characteristics.
Diversity today has some people wondering about different ethnic groups that are taking over their societal environment. Diversity is not being valued the way it should be, people are seeing it as a bad thing, but really diversity has done a lot for the American culture. We all are not the same, we were meant to be different; no race is better than one another despite what history has taught us to perceive. That’s why we all must be treated the same way, whether it’s at the workplace, school, or in public somewhere, that doesn’t mean that we must discriminate each other. We as humans to learn how to open up to different things in life, we are all not the same, and we surely didn’t come from the same place.
Many of us have to deal with diversity every day, sometimes more than others.
I deal with diversity almost every day because of where I work; my co-workers are from differently nationalities. Sometimes it can be stressful because they sometimes speak their official language and they know that you don’t understand, but they speak it anyways. Dealing with that can be very stressful, but I always take it as a learning experience in life that we have to master. Imagine being in a classroom with Spanish speaking students, you will have to learn how to hold a conversation with them to make sure that they know that they are also a part of the class. It doesn’t matter if you know they are they but it is your duty to make sure that they want to belong.