Reflective Essay On Diversity

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

a variety of environmental events, leadership, and experiences” (Weiss, Tilin, & Morgan, 2014, p. 153). I need more here maybe? When bringing students together from different backgrounds and cultures, it is anticipated to run into some cultural diversity. While these differences are expected to be met with professionalism in all settings, according to Weiss, Tilin, and Morgan (2014) we have a “tendency to interpret the behavior of others through the lens of our own habits of thought or personal bias”

As a child, I never liked the word "diversity". I always wanted to be apart of the majority and thought that being diverse as a child was "not cool". Back then; I believed that diversity was in regards to only your origin. Throughout elementary and middle school, I was always trying to be something I was not Now I was not the smallest child in the world, but I was very petite. Regardless, I wanted to show I had capabilities of doing a "cool" sport and dressing like a "cool" kid. That's when the never

Gabriel someone that has a diverse background from me. I did the bicultural diversity assignment based on Gabriel culture. I’m pleased that I got the chance to learn his culture because while doing this task he taught me how to speak in his language, and he also told me exciting facts about his traditionals. There were several exciting things that he taught me about his culture, and I will be explaining it throughout my essay. Gabriel Papazyan is his full name, and he is currently attending CSUN

It is with great honor that I, Marzetta L. Scott, current chapter __ and active member of the Lambda Rho chapter, recommend that Brittney Bates is a potential candidate for membership in our most sacred sisterhood. Having her as a close friend and working with her as a classmate, in my two years of knowing Brittney, I watched her grow and develop into a remarkable woman. Her perseverance and pristine work ethic, commitment of serving others, and her strong-willed personality make her an outstanding

Diversity can be shown through many different aspects such as ethnicity, environments we were raised or things we have experienced. For me, I bring diversity through experiences with the various people that I have worked with. Every summer of middle school and high school I would go on mission trips with my youth group. For these trips instead of going to other countries like a lot of people do, we would go to various cities in the United States to help the people there. My youth group has gone to

I woke up at three in the morning on Election Day last fall to check the news. I was studying abroad in France, eager to watch the results from my first time voting in a presidential race. Filled with excitement about the prospect of a female president, I joined my American friends several hours later for breakfast at a nearby hotel. But as more and more Americans trickled into the room that morning, the mood began to change drastically. The expressions on all our faces as we watched the results

Living in a military family has given me a very diverse experience up to now. Diversity for me is not only for people, but also climates and cultures. I have been to four different places during my lifetime and this has given me a diversity in many different aspects. I was born in North Dakota and I lived there for four years and really did not remember much, I had many stories told to me by my parents and I do know it was very cold. My dad was in the military during this time so I was already

Diversity is something that I have learned a great deal about while here at the University of Minnesota for I am, what some might say, quite un-diverse. I am a white male from an upper middle class area in Green Bay, Wisconsin and growing up all the way through high school nearly everyone around was just like me. Thankfully when I came to do my undergraduate studies here at the University of Minnesota I was hired to work in the student services for the College of Education & Human Development. At

For the longest time, I used to despise the word “diversity” or the idea of being “diverse”. Since nearly the majority of my life, being “diverse” signified that a part of me did not belong or was misinterpreted to fit within the popular views of diversity. It all started when I had the feelings of embarrassment towards my ethnicity at the end of my elementary school years. The looks and reactions I got from the other students after school when my mother and I would speak in Spanish with one another