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Age Of Diversity Essay

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Truthfully, I detest riding behind buggies. They are marginally faster than walking pace, hard to pass by, and honestly, dangerous vehicles all around. Now if you don’t know what a buggy is, this is a very confusing opening to an essay. Allow me to clarify. I live in the middle of nowhere, so when I realized this was an essay on diversity, I couldn’t discern where to begin. However, my humdrum hometown of Middlefield Ohio, holds more diversity than can be said for the large majority of Ohio. We are host to the 4th largest settlement of Amish in the world. They ride in horse drawn carriages called buggies. Given the horse drawn aspect, now you can understand why they move so sluggishly. Now, these people live a very different life from you or I. …show more content…

I questioned this, deeply, and I reevaluated my friends. At the age of 8 I had already realized that we live in a world that judges people based on their appearance. This shook me down to my core. It is my belief that society crushes the childlike innocence we all have in elementary school. Society and the social norms have such an animosity towards characteristics that aren’t “normal”. People simply cannot accept each other for who they are. That’s incredibly unfortunate, given everyone has so much to offer. Don’t believe me? Start up a conversation with someone you’ve never talked to before, I guarantee that you learn something new. Even if it’s as simple as their name. Childlike innocence, as I mentioned earlier, is a powerful thing. Young children don’t see race, color, gender, or anything of the sort. Instead, they see people. Just people. That’s incredible to me. Even the most unbiased people still have some bias, yet a child doesn’t. The beauty of childhood is innocence. I wish to create a world in which people have any semblance of that innocence. Because a world with even half the innocence of a child is a beautiful

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