Reflection On Diversity

Jopwell is a recruiting firm which connects the minority job candidates with the Tech companies in Silicon Valley. The main issue faced by the Tech companies is that the referral candidates are not serving the purpose and they can’t find talented minority candidates suitable to their companies. The companies are aware of the benefits like increased financial returns by having diversity in their workforce. Jopwell is currently serving 45 companies by providing them a pool of thousands of talented minority candidates and has been successful in placing a significant number of candidates in these companies. The company is focussing on diversifying the whole organization by filling the non-technical roles as well like finance, marketing,

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

Diversity surrounds us in our every day lives. Diversity is the individual differences and similarities that exist

Within the first ten minutes of the most anticipated night on television, Jimmy Kimmel arrived in style with the help of “Game of Thrones’” Khaleesi and her dragon, roasted Republican candidate Donald Trump, and bragged about Hollywood’s growing diversity.

I completely agree with the intro, that diversity is no longer black/white, male/female, old/young issue. One of my previous work experiences, with Aids Community Services, who provided full spectrum healthcare and assistance to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. I was exposed to the real side of that life-style and was educated to realities over stigmatisms. Such as, aids being a “gay” disease, there were various people who contracted it from their heterosexual relationship with a trusted mate, male and female. I was also recently exposed, at the same time, to two transgender individuals, one being female transgending to male and the other a male, transgending to female. Having to be in close contact with the transgending

On bases of diversity, I am certain that I relate to most of its aspects. I was born in Cameroon, a developing county in Africa. Moving 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 consider myself to be naïve, but I thought of how my life was going to be like in class. One of the advisors at my community college said to my mom “She is too young to be a fulltime college student. I’d advice she does at least a year of high school in the United State so that she will adapt to the lifestyle and prepare for college both socially and mentally.” Diversity is something I to I relate to and respect so much.

1. There are a number of different methods of teaching employees about the value of diversity. Elmore (1997) suggests that we undertake activities that cause us to evaluate ourselves both as individuals and as members of a group. Additionally, exercises that highlight the negativity that stereotyping and discrimination brings can be valuable. Elmore also suggests that we examine both the similarities and differences in people. Workshops can help because they encourage interaction on a human level, so that some of these lessons need not be overtly explained until the end. This strategy will allow for growth and learning both during the exercise and afterwards as well.

When thinking about diversity I often think of racial diversity but there are different types of diversity other than racial diversity. Parker and Beck pointed out that there is religious diversity, those who know how the school works and those who don’t, tall students and short students, and students whose parents had different jobs. Parker and Beck mention that although students are different in many ways they “like to play and pretend, and they will sit transfixed for a good story”, so even though students are unique they have similarities. In my high school we had mostly white students and about 40% Hispanic students. My school wasn’t as diverse as it could have been but we did have other students who weren’t white. Over the summer I volunteered at a migrant head start school called Telamon. I worked in a class where all the teachers were Hispanic and all of the students were Hispanic. It was such a great opportunity to work on my Spanish and to help in a classroom where the students were all different than my race. I’ve been in schools where students had different religious beliefs, parents had different jobs, and students of different races. Overall I could always benefit from volunteering in schools where there’s diversity. I think volunteering at Telamon will help my teacher because I have a better understanding of students who are migrants but as I mentioned before I could always benefit from more opportunities volunteering at schools that are diverse.

When I started this semester I came into the classroom with a few preconceived assumptions. I assumed that I would be learn little more as I thought that I was already well versed in what diversity meant. This idea was not because I had taken formal classes on it as I am a Biology major and as a result only took a couple of classes concerning sociology or any other classes that would approach the material taught in a class titled ‘The Role of Cultural Diversity in Schooling’. Rather this assumption was based on my own identity as part of a minority. My family is Mexican. I am Mexican, having been born in Mexico. I’d seen and experienced first hand what it meant to be part of the minority. I knew, before I stepped into the classroom, I’d likely be the only Latino in the classroom, something that I predicted based on the demographics I had seen in EDUC 350 and EDUC 422. However my assumption was incorrect.

Diversity reflects how individuals interact with each in all areas of life experience who happen to be different either through gender difference, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, religious beliefs, etc. I was born and raised in Kenya, a country with diverse population comprising of native Kenyans, Indians, Muslims, European, Asians, Americans, etc. as well as a country where there are more than 42 different languages spoken by the population. Kenyan population is comprised of people from different parts of the world but the most unique component of Kenyan population is the large number of different ethnic groups who speaks different languages and portrays a different cultural dimension. Their choice of living lifestyles, food, and religious belief identifies each group in addition to locality of their background.

think anything of it. I grew up in Harrisburg, South Dakota and began kindergarten in 2004. From what I can remember there was little to no diversity, we all looked the same and everyone did the same things. Everyone who lived in Harrisburg either lived in the same housing development or in the country on a farm. I think this could have to be because at that time, Harrisburg was a relatively small town with one school that housed K-12. Now there is six elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, there is also talk of one more elementary school, one middle school and one more high school being added on to the district. With growth undoubtably comes more diversity, which I believe is great for the school district to have. I don't think I really learned many ‘messages’ about diversity when I was younger. One thing that sticks out to me is my parents always told me to remember the ‘golden rule’— treat others how you want to be treated. I took that to heart and it became my life motto. I was never mean to people and I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. If a person doesn't give me a reason to be mean to them, I won’t.

In the age of globalization, harmony within diversity should be nurtured and cherished by the modern society. According to www.dictionary.com, diversity is the state or fact of being diverse; different or unlikeness”. The word “diversity” can be used to describe myriad of situation in this world. However, it is commonly used to express the diversity of culture in a country. Harmony within diversity can be translated as peacefulness among multiracial societies that live together in a country. Fortunately, people in Malaysia, our beloved country practice harmony within diversity. In my opinion, the importance of the nurturing and cherishing of harmony within diversity in our country is uncountable.

Engaging Diversity in Applied Settings, thus far, is one of the most impactful and influential classes I have attended. In the past four weeks of this course, the information I have received is not only interesting but I believe it is extremely useful in my everyday life. This class shows the history and impact of race and cultural diversity, it also allows me and my fellow classmates to explore each other’s viewpoints on each issue or idea. This form of organization in the classroom enforces the ideas we see written throughout the textbook. It enforces these ideas because during the discussion we see the different perspectives each person has evolved through their own worldview. Multicultural psychology: Understanding our Diverse Communities (2016) defines worldviews as “a psychological perception of the environment that determines how we think, behave, and feel” (p. 7). I believe having our participation graded in this class forces us to talk about these difficult issues and prepares me further, to use the information I am learning in my everyday, by making me more open to discussing issues of race and cultural differences. This ability to talk about these issues is a skill I see as extremely important, especially in my future career of a Clinical Psychologist.

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

Culture is seen everywhere. Being raised in a Chinese/Japanese culture house hold is very different from the one I learned from school and my peers. Since I come from a diverse background, I have always had a personal interest in learning about other cultures that differ from mine. As a nursing student, we are constantly taught about cultural competency and how to treat patients based on cultural preferences. I was not sure what Cultural Anthropology was entirely about, but I was excited to learn more about it.