Eth 125 Final Project

Diversity

Marlies Parent

ETH 125

December 2, 2012

University of Phoenix

Diversity

Understanding Diversity

Most of the information that I have learned about in the past nine weeks have shown me that I really did not know much about the issues of different minority groups. I have learned that many people are still very ignorant by stereotyping, prejudicing and discriminating against minorities, and the minority groups still having to fight for their rights that have been given to the majority group without questions. Minorities are misunderstood because many people are just not willing to learn about them and rather avoid them. In a study conducted with 434 college students showed that diversity is very much desired of students, it is considered a “positive mediator for personal acceptance of diverse racial/ethnic groups (Simmons, Wittig, & Grant, 2010). I was amazed how much information I found about the Native Americans and the way they have been treated in the past in, what is technically their own country. The rights that have been given to anyone entering the country as immigrants, but have been denied to the ones that used to live here before anyone else ever discovered the “New Land”. Every minority group had to fend for something throughout their lives in the United States, and is willing to do so instead of just taking the easy way out and leave this country. People need to learn to be more understanding to make it a better place for everyone to live.

New Learned Information

I have learned about my own race that the White race is a majority in the world, They are treated superior to other minority groups like Blacks, Hispanics, or Asian, and are sometimes even positively discriminated against, meaning that they are preferred to other racial groups. My ethnic group, German, has been living with many stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination because of the holocaust and our history with other races and ethnicities; however, I have always...