Diversity In The World

One of the biggest challenges people in this world still face is the acceptance and apperception of individuals who are different from each other. Although we have come so far in regards of accepting others, people are still challenged with the idea of accepting everyone as one. Diversity is appreciating and respecting that each individual person is unique whether that be through race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, etc, and exploring these differences in a safe environment as one individual group. Naomi Thompson lectured about Community, Equity and Diversity and how these maters relate to URI and the world. Naomi explained how diversity and equity are some of the core values URI holds and how even though we value these things there are …show more content…
She got this question from someone who works for Intel and was asked this question and also agreed. I think diversity is so hard in big companies like Intel because they are not used to it. For many years white males have been in charge of these huge companies and bringing in women or other races is not easy for people to accept. Naomi also talked about how many people are unconsciously bias against others meaning that how ones parent brought them up frames their view of the world. Our parents and grandparents grew up in a different world than what we live in now and sometimes-old beliefs that one race or gender is superior can be taught which creates unconscious bias. Through this lecture I learned that there are many groups considered diverse. There was the obvious groups like different races and genders but then she also informed us how people with disabilities fit into this group as well. She talked about the challenges of including people who have barriers and how our world doesn’t make it easy for people with disabilities to fit in. Some of the students in the class brought up how the fashion industry is trying to work with people with disabilities to make clothing for them, which will help to make their lives easier. One student informed us that there are only two clothing companies for people who have Down syndrome, which is great, but there is still more