Diversity Reflection

I learned some important things from this course that I will allow to stick with me no matter my profession. Diversity is something I will always have to deal with regardless if it is race, gender, or gender orientation. Importantly this course has allowed me to grow as an individual and has shown me that it is okay to learn about other races and their background. Not only has it allowed me to be acceptable of everyone in fact, it has allowed me to be less judgmental amongst others.

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.

My initial reaction to taking this quiz was, thinking how I was open minded, and yet I still don't have very much knowledge of diversity apparently! While I was reading through and answering the questions on the multicultural quiz, it was definitely challenging. I only answered two correct out of the 15 questions, which, unfortunately, wasn’t very encouraging. I could be negative and feel ‘stupid’ after taking this test, but I am actually thankful for having this quiz as an eye opener. This quiz also gave me the opportunity to realize I need to keep in mind that I will be faced with situations in the classroom with students and parents with a variety of backgrounds at many economic levels. The bottom line is we are all human with the same blood color and deserve respect and love. The first question on the quiz, which asked about what percentage of U.S schools have no color teachers on their staff, was 40%! I honestly thought here in the United States we would have a higher percentage of cultural diversity on our education team. I was quite surprised also by question four’s correct answer, stating that the U.S is one of the countries rated the lowest for the treatment children. The United States has a high

Based on my immersion with this culture, I learned that this minority group is striving to achieve the highest education so they can be financially stable, find a decent paying job, family oriented, and be loyal to their family. This culture is here to better themselves and build their self-worth, not take all of the low paying jobs. What I learned about myself is that I love learning about different cultures and how I can put aside the differences and focus on the individual. My perception of this group was that they were a poor minority group that worked low paying jobs in America. After talking to the mother of the family, she did work a low paying job but she strived to collect more income for the sake of her children. Based on the language

With that been said, through the semester my experience and my views of people who are different form me has changed. I am not saying that I’ve changed, but, my learning about other people gave me different look of who they think of me. Personally I’ve always treated everyone the same, and this course is about fairness and justice for everyone. As the course progressed I engaged more eager to learn about those issues more from different prospective, especially from the white students that don’t have the same experience as the others like black or Hispanic. Furthermore, there were things that were ambiguous to me that I learned mostly, were social and economic issues, for example the divide that exist between the poor and rich, also racism and its roots and the connection between capitalism and racism was unknown to me.

I think what I enjoyed the most about this course was the fact that I got to learn about all of the different factors that impact or are relevant in order to really understand diversity. I also founded interesting how much understanding this concept really affects your life and those that surround you. I really also enjoyed how we were able to comment on each other’s post, and give our own opinion or feedback on the discussion of the week. I think that this was a great idea because we saw who had similar points of views, who agreed or disagree and some even gave us some words of encouragement. It was just good to communicate with others on the topics of discussion for the week, and after all it was necessary since the main focus of this course

The Beyond diversity workshop dealing with racial issues made me think more in depth about what people of color have to endure. I have always tried to put myself in others situations to help me better understand their actions, and this workshop shined some light onto issues I have not considered. These issues (like how the majority of the United States population sometimes ignore one pivotal point in history—slavery, and celebrate others—like 4th of July) encompasses what social psychology is about: how we relate to, and treat other people. Obedience, as discussed in Pettijohn with the shock experiment, help me better understand why good people may treat others the way that they do. For example, in my home

I grew up in the suburban town of Brunswick, Ohio. Brunswick being a not-so diverse area with most of its citizens being Caucasian and have what some would consider having “old fashioned” values. I went to public school throughout my entire education. I had a typical family, consisting of a mother, a father and two sisters. Many would say nothing about my upbringing was “unique” or “diverse.” However, as surrounded by “typical” as I was, there is something different about the way I grew up. I had to adapt as a gay man in this, very conventional community. Throughout my life I was surrounded by the familiar man meets woman, they have children and start a family. Nobody in my family has ever been associated with the LGBT community and I do

In our class discussions, we talked about diversity. Before taking this class, I perceived diversity through the lens of race and religion, because these are the ones often addressed when discussing when discussing diversity issues. Therefore, I defined diversity as a mixture of people from different races, and different religion coexisting in together in the same environment and/ or country. However, through the class readings, lectures, videos, and discussions, my definition of diversity has changed. I now know that diversity includes not only race and religion, but also includes other things such as skin color, nationality, social class, physical abilities, sexual orientation, age, education, and skills. Therefore, I define diversity as

]A second way that this class has challenged me was through the social justice project. For our social justice project, we had to pick a group that was underrepresented and seek to learn more information about them and share the new information with our classmates. My group chose to learn more about learning disability. One part of our project was to interview someone that represent this group. Finding someone that was opening to share their story with a class of stranger was very hard. They had to be able to trust in us that will would share their story in the right way and bring notice to something that society tends stray away from. This project was very hard for me at first. I want to be respectful of the issue and also show that I was

Diversity is defined as “the condition of having or being composed of differencing elements” (Webster Dictionary). Through my clinical experiences I have seen a lot of diversity whether it be different ethnicity, the family culture/make-up or students living with disabilities in the classrooms. Specifically, in my urban clinicals I saw more ethnicity and culture diversity differences between student to student and student to teacher relationships. However, in my suburban school clinical experiences I also saw diversity, but in a different way. Here I saw much more diversity in family make-up.

The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the diverse experiences that I have had in my personal and professional life. Fortunately, I have had a large mix of diverse friends and experiences in my life. This paper will discuss those diversities as well as the plan to expand on my current knowledge.

Since I started this class, I have a learned a great deal about cultural diversity in the classroom and abroad. My perspective has changed slightly but my knowledge of this subject has improved. In my family, my father taught me about the civil rights movement and the evils of segregation in the U.S. My parents taught me to be tolerant of all humans, no matter what they look like, how they dress, or their sexual orientation. My family has always been liberal thinkers who taught me the dark history of racism and bigotry in this country. As an educator I would be accepting to all race, creeds, and religious peoples.

Despite our Department’s social justice mission and our explicit diversity, my experiences as a black-Latino male has been counter to the principles we espouse. Allow me to explain. White faculty members’ have intentionally deemphasized my academic credentials, undermined me with students, and are among those who initially characterized me based on my racial identity. To illustrate, Mr. Paul Sivak created a slide to introduce faculty during the 2016 New Student Orientation that included the degrees/credentials of each faculty member, however, all of my degrees/credentials were omitted. Mr. Sivak writes in his evaluation letter that I have spent “a tremendous amount of time in the classroom touting his own research and using the platform afforded to him by his role as a teacher to proclaim his superiority…if he is pursuing scholarly activity it is only benefiting himself.” I respectfully reject Mr. Sivak’s equivocation. First, I want to be clear that I had several conversations with Department Chair Dr. Kilolo Brodie who encouraged me to talk about myself as a means to build relationships with students. She shared with me she had her own issues with students when she joined the faculty and overcame her student issues, sometimes at the expense of the course material, by spending a great deal of effort building rapport and relationships with students by sharing her personal narrative and background and even explaining to the students why she preferred to be addressed as Dr. Brodie. While I heeded this advice the interpretation in the faculty input letters is interpreted as self-serving to promote my own agenda.

We live in a society where people come from different countries, they belong to different cultural, religion, ethnic groups, and races. All these factors come together and contributes to differences that make us unique from each other. Hence, a multicultural country with huge diversity. This reflection journal will cover what “human race” is and what role it plays in ones’ personal life and in a nursing profession. Moreover, what bias, assumptions and judgements are, and how to avoid them. Lastly, what caring is and what role does it play in nursing.