Global acceptance is approving of someone else who is different from you. Most can barely accept their own family members let alone people from other countries. One of the hardest lifestyles to accept is the homosexual lifestyle. Some family members who don’t approve of such a lifestyle and that can tear families apart. On a more global scale, being of a different religion can cause numerous quarrels within societies and that leads to even more political issues. Acceptance does not mean that you have changed your own personal views on a topic. In actuality, it means that you can stand side by side with a person who has different viewpoints from you without completely insulting each other. The questions that will be answered in this essay are,
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Where should this global acceptance challenge begin? The answer is simple, America. America is known as the melting pot, it has numerous cultures that have meshed together. The American Dream is the reason there are immigrants here. The “Dream” allows an immigrant to come to America and build a life of their own choosing. Most other nations are unable to provide such a luxury. The major cities such as Atlanta, New York, Chicago, and Seattle are international hubs for anyone to visit and become enriched with knowledge. Atlanta is my hometown, the entirety of the metro Atlanta area is filled with captivating cultures and traditions. The colleges alone have students from all around. I know of Turkish student at Kennesaw State who lives in Germany. He identifies himself as both Turkish and German, so one conversation with him means learning about two different cultures. To be even more specific American colleges allow for students to study abroad in countries like Italy, India, and China. At the same time, these same colleges accept students from countries around the world and allows those students to come to America and learn about our culture. Interestingly enough America has no official national language. Why is that? The reason being that 13.8% of the population speaks some form of non-English at home and 2.9% speak little or no English. America began with a majority of immigrants and now, hundreds of years later, those same immigrants are rejecting the new
Where should this global acceptance challenge begin? The answer is simple, America. America is known as the melting pot, it has numerous cultures that have meshed together. The American Dream is the reason there are immigrants here. The “Dream” allows an immigrant to come to America and build a life of their own choosing. Most other nations are unable to provide such a luxury. The major cities such as Atlanta, New York, Chicago, and Seattle are international hubs for anyone to visit and become enriched with knowledge. Atlanta is my hometown, the entirety of the metro Atlanta area is filled with captivating cultures and traditions. The colleges alone have students from all around. I know of Turkish student at Kennesaw State who lives in Germany. He identifies himself as both Turkish and German, so one conversation with him means learning about two different cultures. To be even more specific American colleges allow for students to study abroad in countries like Italy, India, and China. At the same time, these same colleges accept students from countries around the world and allows those students to come to America and learn about our culture. Interestingly enough America has no official national language. Why is that? The reason being that 13.8% of the population speaks some form of non-English at home and 2.9% speak little or no English. America began with a majority of immigrants and now, hundreds of years later, those same immigrants are rejecting the new