Learning through diversity

Learning through diversity

The reason Sam needs the diversity course is simply because America has become a melting pot, we have students from different social, economical and race which will be attending the same school and will also be studying in the same classroom, furthermore diversity class will teach you the proper way of interacting and ways to reach these different races and cultures. When a student feels like you take their culture serious they will more than likely feel more comfortable to learning about the new culture they are now in. Because not all ethnics are the same, we tend to be very protective of our way of life and we are more often find it easy to be offended by others lack of sensitivity to our way of life.
Coming from Haiti and moving to the United States at an early age, I had to learn cultures, my Haitian culture and the American way of life. I often find myself getting offended when an American person make fun of a fellow countrymen because of their thick Creole accents and way of dressing, while the Americans were wearing jeans, sneakers and t-shirts, the Haitian kids were wearing more of a dressy type with slacks or docker style pants and button down shirts and their haircuts were not high top fades but regular haircuts more like an afro style. There were constant confrontations amongst the two groups because no one took the first step to try to better understand each other and their cultures.
Teachers were not thought anything about diversity in the school or the real world basically the students were winging on their own carrying and acting on their own prejudices and often times were not positive ones rather resentful of the next person that did not act like they did. Today’s society is so diverse that major company started implanting and making mandatory that each employee takes a diversity and or sensitivity class in order to avoid people saying the wrong things to embarrass the company, because the majority of businesses in America are dealing with international companies now more than ever we have to learn and be mindful and respectful to each other’s way of life.