Diversity Assignment

Diversity Assignment Diversity is a well talked about topic of this day and age. This word is what defines each and every one of us. In the Washburn University statement, it describes how it wants to respect, honor, embrace, and celebrate each and every different cultural aspect about our students and help us work together and co-exist together as one student body. Each student brings a different aspect of diversity into this world, even if they are from Topeka and are among the predominant white race. It’s the little things about a person’s personality are what makes them diverse. By honoring diversity, Washburn University has been able to open up doors for students on campus. We have created clubs, events, the international house, and …show more content…
It is always intriguing to know that we have always been open to diversity and never let things stop us from making our University student body exist as one. I also support our diversity statement because, it is all about co-existing as one smooth student body. Every University is unique, and I feel that Washburn has had huge improvements and has taken multiple steps to make it how it is now. The person I met for this assignment was Emili. Emili is very much different from be by the fact that she grew up in so many different communities compared to me. She grew up in a whole different world then I did. She was born in a province in Hunan, China and was adapted when she was 8 months old. Emili wants to become a teacher unlike me who wants to become a nurse. She also likes to go to bed earlier unlike me, who likes to stay up. I chose to interview Emili, due to the fact that she was born and raised completely different from me. I asked Emili a series of 4 questions. The first question I asked her was, to define diversity, and his definition of diversity is, “being willing to accept …show more content…
The book A Highly Unlikely Scenario did teach me to see myself through how one individual went through the event compared to the reader’s eye who shadows everything that went on and just based off of knowledge of the events. Diversity is important to my experience here at Washburn University because I have met so many people and have made so many new friends. I have also learned a lot of new things, like where they came from, what they are majoring in, and how they did things differently than me myself. It’s crazy to say that I have also me tons of foreign exchange students from either China, Japan, Korea, and Saudi Arabia. I have learned so many cultures here and I find it very interesting to learn about their cultures and how it differs from