Ethnic Cultural Diversity
Ethnic Cultural Diversity
Emily Aboosamra
CLS 100
Mrs. Daniels
December 14th, 2012
Throughout my weeks of researching Ethnic Cultural Diversity, i’ve found that trying to define the words ethnicity and culture aren’t in any way easy, but are significantly easier that trying to define the word diversity. When I began this project, in my CLS 100 class a few weeks prior to now, I hadn’t really gone into depth on the topic of diversity in any way, shape, or form. When I say “...in any way, shape, or form”, I don’t mean for that statement to be taken lightly. Basically, any thought that I had had on the topic of diversity had not ever gone beneath the surface of the word. Think of it as a glacier. From an average perspective, one will see what they know to be a glacier. In reality, usually 90% of a glacier is concealed beneath the water. What a person is seeing when they look at a glacier is merely the 10% (or so) that is actually above the water. Seeing the word diversity and thinking only of something as insufficient as a difference in skin color, for example, is just like seeing a glacier and believing you are surveying the whole. On occasion, the beauty of something can only be found if you look beneath the surface.
At the beginning of this “Diversity Project” we were given a group, consisting of two or three other classmates, and were told to pick one of the ample topics within the category of Diversity. I was picked to be part of a group with two of my fellow classmates Eli Ledy and Lordia Dipiazza. We chose to focus our search on the diversity between the thousands of different ethnicities and cultures found throughout the world. We took into consideration the abundance of cultures found within the U.S. itself, which gives America the nickname of being a “Melting Pot” of ethnicities. The downside to this idea, is the entire concept of the melting pot. When you “melt” together all of the different ethnicities, cultures, and traditions that
Emily Aboosamra
CLS 100
Mrs. Daniels
December 14th, 2012
Throughout my weeks of researching Ethnic Cultural Diversity, i’ve found that trying to define the words ethnicity and culture aren’t in any way easy, but are significantly easier that trying to define the word diversity. When I began this project, in my CLS 100 class a few weeks prior to now, I hadn’t really gone into depth on the topic of diversity in any way, shape, or form. When I say “...in any way, shape, or form”, I don’t mean for that statement to be taken lightly. Basically, any thought that I had had on the topic of diversity had not ever gone beneath the surface of the word. Think of it as a glacier. From an average perspective, one will see what they know to be a glacier. In reality, usually 90% of a glacier is concealed beneath the water. What a person is seeing when they look at a glacier is merely the 10% (or so) that is actually above the water. Seeing the word diversity and thinking only of something as insufficient as a difference in skin color, for example, is just like seeing a glacier and believing you are surveying the whole. On occasion, the beauty of something can only be found if you look beneath the surface.
At the beginning of this “Diversity Project” we were given a group, consisting of two or three other classmates, and were told to pick one of the ample topics within the category of Diversity. I was picked to be part of a group with two of my fellow classmates Eli Ledy and Lordia Dipiazza. We chose to focus our search on the diversity between the thousands of different ethnicities and cultures found throughout the world. We took into consideration the abundance of cultures found within the U.S. itself, which gives America the nickname of being a “Melting Pot” of ethnicities. The downside to this idea, is the entire concept of the melting pot. When you “melt” together all of the different ethnicities, cultures, and traditions that