Diversity

    Diversity is defined as "something that has a lot of diffrent kinds or types." When I first thought of duiversity the first thing that I would think of is poeople from diffrent backgrounds, however throughout this week I have learned tht diverysity does not only relate to background and heritage, diveristy can also relate to gender, religion and many other things. Just by looking at someone you can not tell what their background is and where they have come from. For example, someone that has the same color skin as me may not be the same ethnicity. It is human nature to judge by apperence at first look, and when you think something it is ussually stuck in your head. It is a really good thing to learn about people diffrent backgrounds, what their religion is, and what they do in there culture.
   In our College lecture Class last week it was really intesnse. We were given about eight diffrent topics such as africain americains, latinos, arabs, religion. women, men and others and then we were asked to write the first thing that came to mind when we thought of each thing. We were not asked to write down our names, therefore it was completly annoynymos. Some of the things that people in our class put down were horrible, but in the same instance if we were asked to go right it on the board nobody would be truthful. This activity really opend my eyes to how ignorant some people can be. Some of the stuff that everyone was saying may have offended some of the people in the room. I thought that it was crazy how nasty people can be when there names are not in it.
   The last class that we had was one of my favorite classes so far. We had a guest speaker named Mark come into the classoroom and teach us about history and where we all came from. One thing that he said really stood out in my mind he told us that "the greatest weapon we have is our mind, and never let someone hand you a job where you are not using your mind you are only using your handss". He taught us to stay educated so that we are not ignorant, the way he that he presented information to us was amazing, and I think that I will take the time out to read one of his peices of writing. If there is anything that this week has taught me it is that learning about diffrent people and wheere they ahve come from is fun and entertainging, and that you never know where someone has come from and what they might be.