Final Project Week 9

When I started this class 9 weeks ago I did not know much about the different types of diversity that we have in the United States. Since then I have been able to learn about different people and how to better relate to them and their needs. Diversity is the relation that holds between two entities when and only when they are not identical. Since people can be identified by several different things it is important for you to know the different things that is considered part of their identity. I have personally always thought that individuals we mostly identified by their race, religion, and age, but I have learned that a person sexual preference also plays a big part today as how people see and group people together. When I think about how individuals are grouped it brings up a lot of things about my own racial, ethnic, and cultural history. As an African American and a woman I have learn that we have been considered to be at the bottom of ladder for a long time. For as long as most African Americans can remember we have always had a problem with prejudice against us just because the color of our skin. I have learned that women make up half of the human race and that half is most African American. During the 1890-1940 was known as the Jim Crow Era, lots of African Americans were killed and brutalized. They were so afraid of European Americans rules and punishments that they lived in fear. African Americans were unable to vote, had separate water fountains, had to sit in the back of the bus, and couldn’t eat in certain places. We were basically thought of as second class citizens. As time has moved on woman are pulling forward, working and holding on to their morals and beliefs, but as immigrant began to migrate into the United States jobs are again becoming hard to find. During the early 1980’s the United States had a rise in emigrates with individuals who were sent from Cuba to the United States.