Personal Narrative: The American Principle Of Diversity

As New Yorkers, we embody the American principle of diversity-- we have a little bit of everything from around the world. In my neighborhood alone, there are three different mosques and then a church. There are three South Asian restaurants around the block, a Mexican restaurant just across the street, and a Chinese restaurant two buildings down from there. In a two mile radius from my house there are three different types of doctors—my pediatrician, my mother’s PCP and my grandmother’s kidney specialist. There is nothing special about my small Brooklyn neighborhood, this is actually the case everywhere in New York City.
My high school is located in the heart of Tribeca. No more than ten minutes away is a Lot-Less, a Target, and a Barnes &