Diversity Reflection Paper

Looking back at my first assignment in this class, I can clearly see now how little I knew about what diversity really meant. I thought I “knew” the meaning of diversity because I moved from another country, but diversity it is more than speaking a different language. Diversity is the embrace of dissimilarities of people from different cultural backgrounds. This class gave me the tools to reflect on how my personal experiences taught me about diversity and how I have embraced it in different situations.
Moving to the United States made me learned much more about diversity. As I have mentioned in previous papers, I don’t think I would embrace diversity the same way if I would have stayed in my home country, Chile. Although I consider myself very open when it comes to the embrace of diversity, I do believe that I need to work on other aspects of diversity. For example, I need to learn to effectively work with diverse group of people. In addition, I must support fair treatment for all employees.
I believe diversity competency is essential in any work environment, especially in this country where we encounter people from all over the world. There is so much diversity in this country, and sometimes it can be challenging to …show more content…
Throughout my work experience in the United States, I have worked with people from very different cultural backgrounds and even though I was always aware of that, I never felt so aware of this until I started working in my current employment. Diversity in my current place of work is very important to management that is why we have Asian, white and Latinos employees. This can be seen as valuable to the company, but it can also create challenges between employees. I’m the type of person who doesn’t discriminate against other employees, I treat everyone equally. On the other hand, I can see the struggle that some employees face when they need to embrace