Personal Narrative: My Diverse Community

I was born and raised in the small but growing city of Perris, CA. This isn’t the best city out there but it tends to grow on you, and you begin to truly love it for what it is. The people, however, not so much. The community can vary from which part of the city you’re in. That’s because there’s diversity here in Perris. I’m a product of this diversity, being half Mexican and half African American. My parents fell in love after high school and later on began a family. I am the youngest of five. I have two older brothers, an older sister, and an older cousin who lives with us. The order is boy, girl, boy, boy, girl with my cousin being included in there too. We all live in the same house with my parents and are quite close with each other. They all seem to have raised me growing up due to the fact that my parents were busy trying to provide for us. This was a challenge by itself, resulting in lots of house moving and my father being unemployed for six years after losing his job. I never complained about moving because I knew that my parents were doing their absolute best and were working with all that they had and then some. This unquestionably made me adaptable to new environments and gave me a

My diversity project desribes me in many ways, some ways you already know about me some you don't. The outside of the folder repersents things that you may already know about me, the first image is of my name everyone knows my name becuase that is how you have conversation with me and get my attention. The second image is of a musician becuase I love music, it's a vey important part of my life , it makes me feel better when im upset and helps me clear my head. The third image shows a person running, this image repesents me because i'm a very active person, and i do my best to stay healthy and keep in shape. The fourth image is of the number 21, which represents my age. And the final photo is of the color black is represents my favortie color.

Growing up in America, I have always been surrounded by many cultures and different ethnic groups. Many of those cultures differ from my own traditionally. For the first half of my life, I was raised in detroit, a predominantly black city - I had always assumed. My family eventually moved out of Detroit and we moved to Inkster. Inkster was a much smaller city, but it was also a predominantly black city. In 2011, my family moved from Inkster, Michigan to Canton, Michigan. Although the two cities are less than a half hour apart - the cultural and ethnic groups are extremely diverse. While attending my freshman year of high school in Canton I realized, I was a minority there. More than half of the student body, more than half of the community

I grew up in a diverse community where not a lot of people were making smart choices and with people who had different appearances than others I went to school with. My family being the only Caucasian people in the neighborhood made us come off as if we were different type of white people.

In metropolitan urban communities, plagued with economic hardships, social injustice, and violence, rising out of those communities is glorified as the greatest achievement one could earn. In fact, most of my family members and peers congratulated me for being accepted into UNC-Chapel Hill with phrases like, “you made it” and “it’s over.” But, I knew different. I was well aware that attending UNC-Chapel Hill, the first public and most prestigious university in NC would be substantially different than the conditions of my hometown. No longer was I around the likes of my melanin, socioeconomic status, or cultural background, and adjustment proved to be difficult. During my first year a UNC, I endured social isolation, homesickness, academic hardship,

I was raised in the great, small community known as Tigard. I love my community, the schools, the people, and the opportunities. Coming from a background of low income, my family and I were in a constant need of food, clothes, and home goods. I was lucky enough to have a great community with churches and even neighbors who were always willing to extend a hand and guide my family throughout our experiences. I have my community to thank for my childhood.

Due to the world’s increasing population, interaction among people from diverse cultures, beliefs, and backgrounds have increased tremendously. The proper management of diversity in companies, industries, and universities has increased the productivity than ever before. Therefore, there is an avid realization in the scientific community that diversity and difference are the very basic of creation because: promotion of diversity and difference has become one of the major goals of scientific research and professional service. This also supports the idea of Morgan “Creativity thrives on diversity.”1

In fact, the global mindset is an individual thought to help the global leader understand the current global situation. Thinking globally is not just having international experience. It is more likely to help people enter globalization. The GMI report reflects everyone status of global mindset. In my report, the passion for diversity is lower than the average score. It means my passion for diversity in global mindset needs to improve. In my opinion, passion for diversity is means accept different global culture, ideology and behavior habit. I think I am very happy to accept them, but I lack long-time live in other countries, and depths understand human value. If I stay new countries for a long time, I feel panic. However, I enjoy travel other

I grew up with the idea that minorities stayed in these neighborhoods and grew up to be the individuals they were stereotyped to be: high school drop outs, stuck in a dead end job, single parents, and gang affiliated, in prison or with criminal records, dead at an early age. This is the way society has brought us up to believe and because of this some people give up on themselves and give in to these stereotypes. I was lucky enough to have been pushed towards higher education by my siblings and by my high school teachers and counselors. But not everyone is so lucky.

I have contributed to the Key Communities values by getting to know people in my cluster, I learned that we all came from different backgrounds. I am from a community that is not diverse and surrounded with people that had the same type of perspective on political, economic, etc. views and coming to Key was completely different. I learned that not everyone in Key had the same perspectives as me so I learned to understand where they are coming from and that it is OK to have different perspectives. It did not mean I disliked that person, I just learned that because Key is very diverse that we would be bringing different things to the table. As a cluster, we worked on a service project that we made breakfast for homeless people in Old Town. It

Despite growing up in rural Oregon, I have had numerous opportunities to experience diversity. In the small town of Dallas, Oregon, people are accustomed to close-knit groups. It is a town where everyone knows their neighbor, and where each individual has the same values as the next. At a young age, I never had the chance to realize the sheltered life that I was living.

My life is an example of extreme diversity - female, Asian, born in South Korea, baptized, adopted, American citizen, and Jewish. My family moved to America when I was about two years old; however, I still maintain ties to my Korean heritage. Even after moving to the United States, my mother and I found opportunities to maintain a Korean lifestyle by attending a Korean Christian Presbyterian Church, where my mom volunteered and enrolled me in classes pertaining to Korean culture and religion. However, not all my surroundings were Korean-based. Since we lived in America, it was necessary to expand our knowledge of the American culture and its traditions.

When I was four months old, I was adopted from India. The uniqueness of this situation is that my adoptive parents are of Polish, German and Mexican descent. Due to this, I have always had the opportunity to surround myself to a variety of cultures. Furthermore, it has influenced me to have a different perspective. Growing up in a small community has shown the lesser of diversity. At times, it was hard to fit in but I have and will always treat my fellow man with respect and acceptance. No matter their ethnicity religion or color, I will treat everyone the same. I was raised by a single parent and know what it is like to go without and believe all should be treated equally. I want to go into the medical field to continue to help people and

My past experiences have allowed me to relate with a vastly diverse group of individuals over the years, and for that reason I am grateful of my success and tribulations. I was raised by a single mother in a neighborhood where we were robbed multiple times, taunted with trails after robberies, and I struggled with the blatant tension at school from children who lived in different neighborhoods. I didn't understand why some of my friends hated each other simply due to the location of their house, but my cousin lived in a rivaling neighborhood from me, so I was forced to view both sides. This allowed me to see people for who they were, and I would ease tensions when I could, but some interactions were inevitable. My family is relatively large,

When I was as young as two years old I had my first memory, It was of me and my sister trying to walk, but our oldest sister would always come over to trample us in her attempt to get to the play kitchen first. Ever since this young age, I have memories that all include the same person, my twin, Heidi. We were inseparable at this young age, being able to have somebody to play with whenever you wanted to, but like any other siblings we would fight. We were always told that it would be “so much” fun and “so awesome” to have a twin, every single time somebody told us this we would always respond by saying that we wished we were seen as two different individuals, rather than just being known as ‘the twins’.