Personal Narrative: My Experience With Diversity

Improved Essays
In the world there are faces that are different from mine, views, practices, churches, and food different from the ones I'm used to. My ignorance allows me to look at them differently, but I'm quickly reminded not to judge by the cover of something. My experience with this multi-cultured society granted me access into excepting people who do not favor me. Despite judging them before, the diversity amuses and excites me and when others judge I put myself inside their shoes and I get defensive. Sometimes, I forget I'm not them. There were abandoned houses because that's what Detroit is about and the structures were fairly similar on every block. A little further down there was a woman at the bus stop, dressed in a burka. I remember

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    The racial identity framework that fits my identity would be Black Identity. First of all, because I identify myself Mexican. The other two racial identity development don’t describe the way I see myself and feel. As a matter of fact, when Dr. Reid mentioned the Black Identity, I was able to relate to it and actually see myself in stage 4 of internalization with secure attachments. Black Identity is a classic theory that apply to other group of colors.…

    • 497 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    When one thinks of Iowa, one does not necessarily think of cultural diversity. The more and more I think about it as I have matured, it was exceedingly challenging to grow up as an Asian in my community. That is because I sometimes had trouble understanding the culture of others and my own culture at my young age. When I was younger, I found it very challenging to understand many of the things my peers and teachers were saying figuratively. For example, I had difficulty understanding jokes, so I took them literally and did not know they were joking.…

    • 391 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Growing up in a very poor country, I learned that you can’t judge people because you don’t know what they are going through. For culture to thrive everyone has to be opened minded and understanding. With all the experience I have had from…

    • 366 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences” - Audre Lorde. As the years pass, the need to accept others as they are is still an issue. Despite the attempt to make this issue disappear, people are still being judged by their race, beliefs, physical appearance and much more. This type of judgement happens all over the world and can affect people and a community both physically and emotionally.…

    • 413 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird states “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.” I feel, personally, that this quote addresses the problem of the world, not just my own personal conundrum. However, I am not going to discuss the world, but rather myself. I find that many times I am to quick to judge, quick on the trigger if you will.…

    • 598 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Yantee Slobert, Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs and Diversity Programs, St. John Fisher College came to class to talk about is job and how he got there. We as a class talk about what is diversity and what means to be respectful to the other. Yantee first began with the name game. This was interesting because most people when doing a typical ice breaker, have no purpose besides “breaking the ice”. Yantee did this ice breaker to show the commonality within each other and build a foundation on that commonality.…

    • 531 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Imagine this: you have work today. You do the daily routine of getting ready and getting your kid ready and walk out the door and drive your kid to school. You drop them off and he or she says bye mommy I love you and you were in to much of a hurry to say it back. 3 hours later, you don't have that chance to say I love you anymore.…

    • 100 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Another tragic memory that pumped some sense into my head about racial identity and ethnic disparities; was when my elder brother was arrested on the basis of being black. My brother was wrongfully arrested because a Caucasian officer expressed that he saw him rob someone. Upon arrival at the scene trying to understand what happened, that officer expressed in his words that “ nigger you know you robbed that store”. I couldn’t believe that this was happening to me because, I have always heard about situations like this. The officer made more remarks such as, “you niggers are always stealing”, “you niggers will always be shit”, and you are going to pay for this crime even if you did not do it.…

    • 378 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When I assert “I am white” it means that I have never had to question who I am as a person based on my race. I have never had to question the way I was treated just based upon the color of my skin. This calls to the social construction of race. I hardly ever have to question my race because I am white. Those of other races often fight internal battles where they question, “Is the reason I was just treated this way attributed to my race?”…

    • 967 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    For my minority experience, I decided to attend a church service at the Sacred Heart Catholic church in Warsaw, Indiana. The service lasted for about one hour and was attended by many individuals of various ages. When the members of the church first walked into the sanctuary, they walked up to the front and kneeled or bowed to the cross and then walked to their seats and said a prayer that I did not know. Throughout the service, there were a few songs that were sung and the priest spoke for the majority of the time. At the end, the members of the church then took communion and received a blessing and anointment with oil from the priest.…

    • 662 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Being a white, heterosexual, female means I am privileged to do many things some people are not but also some things that can be frowned upon if I did them. Being a female already puts me below a male. Being a white female I can go anywhere I want and not have people watch what I am doing. I can walk into a store have the sales associate say hello to me and continue on with her day. I can also carry around bigger bills and not have anybody think anything less of me besides that I work my but off for that money.…

    • 927 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I notice in my racial Identity development and of my peers that we don’t have to rely on not only people of color, but any person to validate our opinion about race. I notice that we Immerge ourselves when we were learning, and gaining experience about race, and we Emerged ourselves when we learned about race and how it was shaping ours perspective regarding race, which helped us construct a new identity. We thought that by accepting people of other races, we were changing our perspective about race, that the unity of us all together could change other people’s lives. Our desperate intensions of building a beloved community, to fight racisms together, to eliminate all kind of oppressions, it is just a dream because there still people who are…

    • 152 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I had the identity of a Claremont Academy alumna, a school composed of many ethnic minorities, however, I was also now a student of the College of the Holy Cross, an elite private college. I had never thought of my identity as a student from Main South to be a problem until academic institutions such as Holy Cross kept imposing and cultivating such idea. It was only when I began to network outside of my communities, that I began to realize that I truly live in between two different worlds. What startled me the most was understanding the complexity of why a great gap of opinions existed between two communities in the same city. Furthermore, during the time I began college, I learned how important my racial and ethnic identity was to me.…

    • 209 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My Multicultural America Learning about race and ethnicity the past couple of weeks has been very eye opening for me. I am a middle class Caucasian girl that has never really had to deal with or even think about any of the things that many other people in American have influence their lives every single day. As much as we want to believe that racism is dead and there is no discrimination anymore, that just isn’t true. I don’t really feel like I can even talk about race and ethnicity because I have always been in a very homogenous environment. There weren’t very many kids of other ethnicities or races in my school and that was basically the only place I interacted with other kids my age besides church but because it was such a small town…

    • 1536 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    ¬¬Cultural and ethnic identities are not things that you are born with. Sure your ethnic heritage may determine things like the color of your skin, but an ethnic identity stretches far deeper than just skin color. Cultural and ethnic identities are things that are learned over time. They are formed through a collection of teachings, experiences, and choices. This autobiography will explore how my ethnic and cultural identities developed throughout my life.…

    • 1892 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Improved Essays