Personal Narrative: My Ability To Work With People From Different Cultures

In modern times the world is more diverse and as a result, we are required to work with people that may be a little different from us. This is especially true for myself as I live in Houston, Texas one of the most diverse cities in the world. This has provided me the opportunity to work with people who come from different background and cultures. One instance of this would be when I had to do a project with my classmates who all hailed from different cultures. One time last year my teacher assigned me to do a project with a group. The group I got assigned to happened to have people who came from different cultures. For instance, one of was from Bangladesh, one was from India, and one was Caucasian. All of these people had different cultures than that of mine as I am Hispanic. Once we started talking and trying to figure out how to do the project we all tried to do our best to get along. One of them suggested we go over to his house to do the project. At first I was intimidated because I was not used to going over to people’s houses that are from different cultures. I was scared that might do something to offend his family or something. When I first showed up to his house I was not fully confident of what was going to happen. I was scared of going in and meeting his parents as I had never been over to someone else’s house much …show more content…
Although we all had different cultures, we all had similar thoughts and goals. I realized that we all had similar lives. For one we went to the same school and had to deal with the same people. Even outside of school, we had similar lives. We were all very busy with things such as homework, work, and other extracurricular activities. Also we each had a family that functioned in a similar in fashion. As we did the project I found out that our different backgrounds were also helpful as we were able to come up with different solutions for many different