Diversity

                One of the most important factors in today’s culture is also one of the most limiting factors in many communities across rural America. This week about diversity was very different and interesting compared to some of the previous talks about diversity I have been able to experience. I learned a few things from this week’s activities that I can hopefully use in my future career and apply to some of my classes. I learned that diversity isn’t as simple as I thought it is. It can be almost anything relating to a difference between two things. Stereotyping is something that will always happen but it has changed overtime and will continue to change as our generations change. We each have our own dimensions that we use to identify ourselves even if other people don’t see us through this same perspective.
                This week’s speaker was very interesting and brought out very different perspectives to view diversity from. When he talked about sympathy compared to empathy I thought that was very interesting because I had never thought about diversity in this way. I thought he was a great speaker that tried to keep the crowd involved. My views related to diversity have changed dramatically since high school because my school had little to no race, ethnic or religious diversity. Now that I’m at Iowa State University I have become very aware of the diversity within the college.
              Diversity is the reason that the world is not extremely boring. Without as much diversity as there is in the world everyone would be the nearly the same and there would be no excitement in meeting anyone new. I know that there would be less fighting in the world about controversial issues due to everybody thinking in the same general ways but then what fun would there be in news and events? I don't think there would be much.