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.

This summer I was challenged to take on a volunteer opportunity at a facility with children to learn about and experience encounters on diversity. I started volunteering with Mrs. Rodriguez at her home daycare center “Severina Rodriguez Family Home Day Care” on May 2, 2015. This institution’s mission is “Where your Child is our Priority.” I originally picked this daycare center because when I was a toddler I was a part of this institution. I wanted to give back to those who took care of me when my parents could not. This home daycare is located in Hialeah, a primarily Hispanic portion of Miami. Since the majority of the inhabitants of Hialeah are Hispanic the demographics of the home daycare was primarily Hispanic. Other races that were represented

This course focuses on important to teach students about diversity to help them develop empathy for others. We will read about diversity and cultures to help students understand what diversity really means and how it applies to them. Diversity focuses on race, gender, ethnicity, and cultural and how it pertains to the classroom and everyday life. This course is here to enlighten students of the differences of others and how to be sensitive to everyone’s cultures and beliefs. Consists of developing positive relationships among diverse groups and individuals to fight stereotyping and promote unity (Bank & McGee, 2013).

I completely agree with you and I was also surprised about how people discriminate others in the health care system. Based on the research, Blacks and other people from racial groups “are less likely to be given appropriate medication for heart diseases or to undergo bypass surgery”. When I first read this, I was very surprised because I thought the discrimination rate is decreasing today, and most of the inequalities exist in workplace. Prejudices in health care system may cause some serious consequences if the patient couldn't get the appropriate treatment and attention.

MasterCard has also partnered up with other minority-focused organizations, such as Women 2.0, which is focused on connecting talented women in technology to existing entrepreneurs (6). The relationship between Women 2.0 and MasterCard will help create communities of innovative women in technology, and to help them cultivate future leaders of these women and provide continuous support through their careers (6).

According to my family and cultural values, I have learnt to respect and understand other cultures and their beliefs. I always try to increase my awareness of the various dimensions of diversity. I always try to examine my own cultural identity and how that identity affects my relationships with others. In my opinion it is really important to become more aware of my own attitudes, perceptions, and feelings about various aspects of diversity. As an educator I think it is really important to make a commitment to increase an understanding of diversity.

By this class meeting a diversity requirement, it means that a subject that is not commonly taught is available for us so that we may gain a new prospective on how we live, what we want to focus on, continue scaffolding along this educational path, and it is an opportunity to learn something new. By taking a diversity course, we are voluntarily engaging in a class to discover what else there is to life and how we can look at it from all points of view whether it’s the view of man, woman, child, politician, or otherwise. This course qualifies as a diversity requirement due to the patriarchal ways that most psychological courses and studies were created. The fight for equality among the sexes has driven more psychologist to take a more in-depth

As someone who has had the opportunity to go be raised in a very diverse neighborhood in Northern New Jersey and to go to private, yet sundry, schools throughout my life, I have learned a great deal about multicultural competence and how to understand and value other individuals’ worldviews. My greatest experience was going to a prestigious college in the Bronx. On campus, I was surrounded by the wealthy and the poor, students who drove no more than thirty-minutes to school and those who flew from across the globe to come to Manhattan College. In the classroom, I was lucky enough to hear viewpoints and opinions from all of these individuals. Having this opportunity not only opened my eyes to what it is like in other sectors of the world, but it also helped me to expand my lens when it comes to various cultures. As a student of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, I would be able to contribute to the fulfillment of the program’s mission by being able to demonstrate to others how to open their

]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

Sue (1997) believed that there are pros and cons to both methodologies and argued that for someone to achieve multicultural competence, it is more vital to move away from the individualized approach to therapy and see the individual as a “whole person,” assessing his or her individual, group, and universal characteristics. Not only that, he noted that multicultural training is best delivered when the materials are integrated throughout the courses in a training program instead of offering students with a single course on diversity and racial disparities (Sue & Sue, 2003). Unfortunately, even though many programs recognizes the need to implement multicultural training into their curriculum, many of them still only provide students with one or two classes on the issue

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.

Fhagen-Smith, P. (2014). Psychology 251. Multicultural Psychology – Courses of Instruction | Wheaton College. Retrieved from http://wheatoncollege.edu/catalog/psy_251/

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.

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.