Culture and Diversity Final

Culture and Diversity

ETH/125 Version 7

Week 9 Assignment

* What information about diversity in the United States has helped you better understand or relate to others in ways that you may not have in the past?

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* I have learned that diversity was something immense in the past; before the 1950’s business owners did not want colored people in their businesses because they only wanted white people. I have also learned that we have come a long way since then; in 2008 we voted in the first African American President Barack Obama. I have always believed that we are all human and there is no difference in some one that looks different just because the color of their skin. We are all different and unique in our own way whether we were born to live the lives of our parents, or their parents before them. Everyone is raised different but we are all still human and made of the same blood. Diversity is something the older generation cannot break because that is the life they were raised to live. Newer generations are much more accepting of people who look different than they do just because of their skin color. The color of skin you were born with does not make you any different than somebody else is. In the past black people were treated like slaves just because their skin was darker than white people. That kind of power white people had over black people was astronomical to think it was only because white people were intimidated by somebody who had a different skin color. I do not think anybody has the right to claim the life of another as their own to do with as they please. Without getting to know people who might look or act different then we do we don’t have the right to judge them differently than we are. Judging someone makes them seem that they feel superior because differences might scare them and they feel judging them is their only option.

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* Have you learned something new about your own racial, ethnic, or cultural history?...