My Response To The High School Diplomats Program (HSD)

Diversity is said to make us unique and beautiful, yet too often it creates the ugliest conflicts. History will tell us more often than not that fundamental components of human life (race, religion, politics, culture, etc) are the root of many conflicts. Yet, people seem to make our discrepancies seem praiseworthy, and that we must accept them wholeheartedly. Although acceptance is crucial in forming a more empathetic society, it is important to recognize that one’s willingness to accept others is shaped by their past experiences and upbringing.

First of all, I am a Taiwanese American from Dallas, but I’ve also been raised in several different places than where I come from, including China, Spain and the UK. Having lived in these places made me both culturally and socially diverse. On one hand, I’ve experienced different educational systems, food, languages and knowledge about different ways of living; on the other hand, I’ve learned how to quickly adjust into new environments and thus interact with people from all over the world.

Many barriers can evolve from people who grow up with no formal education, who only speaking their local dialect, and who have little exposure to people who are different from them. Ethnic people who can acquire a formal education, practice biculturalism, and code switch are able to be much more successful in life. It is a well-known fact that having a formal education has a major impact on a person’s earning potential and life success. Needing to understand and navigate cultures other than one’s own culture is another critical life skill. This is common thread of Dr. King, Fredrick Douglas, Amy Tan’s and myself.

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).

As I look around, there is diversity everywhere, whether it is in the shopping centers, at church, various events, restaurants, schools or in the workplace. People of every race, color, and creed gather in most of these places. For example, one late Sunday morning my family gathered at a popular American restaurant in our city after church service. It was crowded and diverse inside and out on the patio. Since it was nice and warm outside, we sat on the patio and watched different people walk

Providence is known as a highly dangerous city. Consequently, we are the “hood” of RI. There should be a group of teenagers, that meet about once every week, from each community to discuss how we could expand diversity. They would spread the message all over Providence. Every year, there should be a vast cultural fair that includes all cultures’ cuisine, music, arts & crafts, etc. giving everybody an experience of what it’s like to be a different race. The only way to recognize it, is to attempt to be in someone else’s shoes. In this cultural fair, kids, teenagers, and adults be able to notice who else is living in their communities, and the city. We would have activities in which, for example, we’d be paired up with someone we don’t know,

First of all, it is important that every person is respected and appreciated despite differences. In this program we have four main goals for your child in this area. We will teach in a way that each child will be able to demonstrate self-awareness, confidence, pride in his heritage and culture, as well as teaching them to have positive social identities. Each child should demonstrate comfort and joy in our differences, in human diversity, they will learn appropriate verbiage for human differences, and we will work towards guiding them to make deep, caring human connections.

Guidotti illustrates how the inner transformation of one individual's thoughts on personal differences (e.g., albinism) has the potential to impact the manner in which others respond to those differences. The latter is especially true when media is used to ignite societal change. In addition, I believe that it is equally important to reflect upon whether each of us has a tendency to embrace diversity (personally and in others). Alternatively, we should examine whether we tend to shy away from differences that appear foreign to us. That is, to what extent are our professional and personal interactions with clients, colleagues, and so forth informed by a genuine desire to accept diversity without

Destination Diversity is a club to promote a safe, caring, compassionate environment! In our school, we promote that all people are different, and it is essential to treat them with respect. As educators, we should help celebrate diversity with empathy. This diversity club will be a group of students devoted to celebrating diversity. Students in this club will promote diversity and spread the message of tolerance by displaying bulletin boards, reading to younger children, and designing presentations to educate everyone about different cultures through broadcast segments on the daily announcements. The goal is to celebrate our diversity and embrace our

Reading through the few definitions of cultural competence in the attachment really spoke to me in regards to how to practically keep an environment that is accepting of diversity. What I really took from it is that we must have the capacity to do a cultural self-assessment. Sometimes it is easy to think we are loving and accepting of differences, but really thinking about how we treat people with differences will show the truth. We will have children in our classes that just act a little differently from the average. Frustration is an easy response, but remembering that this could just be a culture difference is so important. Once recognized, we can find out what the child needs. It might be a different need from the majority of the

Being a global citizen one must accept all those who are different from us, culture that sounds strange to us and people who looks nothing like what we are familiar to. For me, being part of the Chinese group who is studying aboard here in the U.S. I feel a strong feeling of accepting. Students here at ASU are extremely diverse. There are people from India, South America, middle east, and many more places. We are all here gathered and involved in the same college society. Like it or not, it forces you to get involved with people all around the globe. Leo Tolstoy once said, “I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts.” We, as people of the earth, need to learn and understand about each other. Most of our conflict are a result of misunderstanding and not communicating. It is very important for students and working classes of people to go to come together and learn about each

Diversity is one characteristic that makes the United States Air Force (USAF) the most powerful and unique Air Force in the world. Considering this fact makes me understand that the concept of Social Sensitivity is an essential factor in becoming a successful leader. The knowledge coupled with the ability to understand and value the differences in my airmen’s culture, views and beliefs define the reason this concept it’s important. The flight I was entrusted by to lead is composed of a huge variety of diverse people. At this moment I have airmen assigned that are originally from the island of Maui, Hawaii, others from the state of Louisiana, Kansas, Michigan and New York. Also, I am required to manage a German national civilian workforce which operates side by side on a daily basis with the rest of my airmen. Let alone the fact that all my operations are conducted in a multinational, multicultural domain outside the USAF installation. With that in mind, my inability to acknowledge the characteristics, fuse the personalities, strengths, and beliefs of my people would have devastating consequences when it comes to the mission success.

Furthermore, showing appreciation and respect for every person can significantly affect the image people have for us. How we treat people is how people see us. In fact, diversity doesn’t present an obstacle, but enriches the process of exploring cultures and developing long-term friendships as well.

I learned the keys to recognizing and working around cultural differences at a very young age and it is this that helps me navigate the myriad differences I encounter among people and nationalities. It is a thin line to walk – to determine where cultural differences bring colour to life and where they limit growth and progress – and that is why my open mindedness matters to me most: it is a constant debate and one that keeps me focused on both people and purpose in every

The three things that have made the biggest impact on and have influenced my life that shaped me into the person I am today are family background, experiences from my school year, and religious beliefs. Our culture provides a lens through which we view the world and interpret our everyday experiences. In order to know who I am today, I must look at who you’ve been. Many educators around the country are interested in developing a multicultural approach in their teaching. They find themselves in classrooms with 25 children of varying racial and cultural backgrounds, and are looking for ways to connect what they do in the classroom to the cultures represented by their students. Before we can begin to understand others, however, we need to understand ourselves and what we bring to our interactions with others.