Diversity Reflection

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

When working with clients you will most likely experience instances when your own values will make the helping profession difficult. According to Corey and Corey (2007), there are three multicultural counseling practices that assist the helping profession.

Over the past year, I have demonstrated a commitment to educating employees about Diversity & Inclusion through positive attitude and actions and promoting awareness and respect of culture and individual values and to treat everyone with dignity and fairness. When the council needs volunteers either to organize Diversity Day or create network events, I am eager to assist. I prepared and presented the Diversity moment at the spring town hall meeting and supported others with material for various meetings. I have strengthened my communication and presenting skills. Furthermore, I will continue coaching and support the new D&I council

I attended the event Diversity Matters sponsored by the Access and Diversity Center. The speaker was Dr. Brenda Allen. I enjoyed both the delivery and content of her presentation. Dr. Allen’s purpose was to explain the reasons diversity matters in higher education. In addition to the specific purpose of her speech, she shared resources and personal experiences as examples of the principles being applied in the real world. She established her credibility by citing her experience and positions. This also helped us understand the depth of her knowledge in the field of diversity in a university setting. I noticed she navigated the crowd and made lots of eye contact. This affected me because I felt her confidence conveyed as she moved while transitioning through points in the speech and looked directly at professors when a point was made concerning them and did a similar thing with the students in the room when she was addressing us.

Taylor, you gave great view points about Senior Human Resources representatives need to understand how staff provide diversity training to the organization. Also you gave a view point of how religious believers will have to interact with many other beliefs in order address many diverse peoples. My thought is that we as believers and nonbelievers must present ourselves as a vital part of a system that promote good values to all that we encounter. In the workplace it is so important that as leaders coming from being a good follower of God guidance to build a world that all would want to be a part of.

There were a few things that I had experienced throughout the semester that I had not put a lot thought into until I was asked to reflect on them. In the beginning of the semester, the class observed experiences with talking to people about race in our first reflection. I remember discussing that it is easier to talk about race and ethnicity with people who have a different ethnic background than mine. After learning a lot about other races, I realize that I was only scratching the surface in these past conversations. There are a lot of hardships that people of color face and I understand now that it is important for all races to be aware of this. On that note, it is more difficult talking about discriminations and adversities with different racial groups, but it is important for majority groups to be able to understand what minority groups have to say.

This paper is going to cover my personal reflection of what diversity means to me. I will also discuss the messages I learned as a child about various minorities and majorities, and how my views have changed since then. I will describe a situation in which diversity directly influenced my life. This paper will also include reflection 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.

To be honest, I simply chose this class due to hesitation I was having while selecting a course on the day of Early Enrollment. Everyone around me knew what they were going to study for 2nd Semester except me. I had to choose a course in a fast manner in order to attend Seneca normally just as same as others. I guess I can say that I picked this course out of an accident. Although it might sound ludicrous, I personally believe that there is everything to study and learn in everything. Even if it’s just watching a movement of an ant colony if you have a will to study you do learn something. Even though I almost panic-picked this course, I am expecting to acquire some knowledge about different

I have never experienced diversity because the schools I went to were predominately caucasian. In elementary school, my grade had two hispanic students including myself, two Japanese students, and eighty students who were either Irish, Italian, Canadian, or German. In middle school, I changed schools and there was a little more diversity. When I say a little more diversity I mean four hispanics, two African Americans, and two Japanese. I believed, at the time, that this was as diverse as schools could get. On top of that, the town I lived in was also caucasian. Although I had knowledge of other races, I had never had any contact with them. While starting the college application process, I looked at the diversity. I was shocked when I saw the low variety of ethnic backgrounds in Plattsburgh. My perspective completely shifted the day Summer Institute began.

When you ask people what the first word that comes to mind when they think of diversity, they usually reply with “race,” “socioeconomic status,” or other demographic elements. Diversity entails a multitude of factors, yet can also be connected to the individual experience. Growing up, my identity has been strongly tied to my upbringing in an Italian household with my father, mother, and brother. Considering my father’s parents emigrated from Liguria, the birthplace of pesto, growing basil allowed us to maintain a connection with our heritage. As a child, I remember playing in my backyard with my brother, careful to not roll the ball in the dirt where the basil was growing. That would ruin the fun of picking it with my dad and making it with my mom. Yet, the truly satisfying aspect of this tradition was sitting down as a family and sharing a meal complete with numerous anecdotes.

Diversity is such a beautiful concept that people take for granted; in this day and age, it is common to hear individuals make negative comments about people from other countries. Many of my high school friends were Vietnamese or of other Asian descents, and they would tell me stories of classmates who made comments about their names and joked about them eating dogs. For example, my friend told me that when a boy found out she had a dog as a pet, he stated “the dog will probably end up being your dinner.” Even though my friends brushed it off as if it was a joke, it still made me livid because those people did not take the time to truly understand my friend’s lives or realize that those stereotypes were not true. Everyone is diverse in their own way; diversity is not only restricted to ethnicity. When I was growing up, my religion made me diverse. Going to a public school, most people did not follow the Christian faith and did not care about sin; because of that, their families were not near as strict as mine. I was not able to listen to the same music they were listening to or watch the same movies they watched because my parents did not want me to lose my innocence. When I would go over to my friends’ houses, their parents would not care where we were or what we were doing, but at my house, my parents would check up on me all the time. One time when I was in middle school, my friend and I walked on train tracks for a few hours without her mother knowing where we were, but

Each and every one of our multicultural journeys toward cultural competence is overwhelmingly diverse. The personal identities that every human being represents are a unique way of displaying how understanding cultural diversity is essential. The multicultural aspect expresses how society contains distinct cultural and ethnic groups that live alongside one another. These groups may also display distinct behaviors, morals, values, language and more. With that in mind, becoming aware of our personal worldviews and false assumptions about human behavior can lead to the elimination of biases and the opportunity to become culturally competent. Understanding and being open-minded to culture differences is essential to me. Not only as a professional health practitioner, but more so as an individual who was raised in an African culture. I learned how to function within my culture norm as it pertained to spirituality, striving for social justice and learning how to be open-minded toward other cultures as I continue to advocate for my own.

On the basis of diversity, I am certain that I relate to most of its aspects. I was born in Cameroon, a developing country in Africa. Migrating to The United States exposed me to not just gender diversity, but also to racial, cultural, and religious diversity. I moved to The United States in 2015 at age 15 and started community college at age 16. At the time, I did not view myself as unmindful, but I thought of how my life was going to be like in class. On my first visit to Wayne County Community College District, one of the advisers said to my mother “She is too young to be a full-time college student. I’d advice she does at least a year of high school in The United State so that she can adapt to the lifestyle and prepare for college both socially and mentally.” Diversity is something I relate to and respect so much.

My understanding of diversity has most definitely followed me into my personal and professional life. I now have a voice and speak up anytime I ever hear discrimination. I try to expose myself to different types of people if I get to chance so I can further my knowledge on their culture. The term diversity shouldn’t have a negative stigma attached to it. Diversity is what should make us a powerful community because each one of us has something special to offer. Being placed at a very diverse internship site has helped me tremendously. I have realized that is the setting I hope to work in. I can see there is still a lot of work that needs to be done.

When it comes to diversity, I am certain that I relate to most of its aspects. I was born in Cameroon, a developing country in Africa. Migrating to The United States exposed me to not just gender diversity, but also to racial, cultural, and religious diversity. I moved to The United States in 2015 at age 15 and started community college at age 16. At the time, I did not view myself as unmindful, but I was speculating how my life was going to be like in class. The environment was new to me, I wasn’t sure of how things are done here, but that did not bother me at all. I had been watching on the news that America welcomes everyone, hence I did not feel uncomfortable being different or having an accent that people didn’t understand.