I Believe In Diversity

Something I believed that exemplifies me is that I believe in diversity. I especially believe that a University has a well diverse community, and how it can grow into a well-respected community. Being in a community that is well diverse, will reflect positively on my ability to succeed in a university. Having to be surrounded by different cultures will help me learn and go out of my comfort zone in order for me to fit in. Being in a large community that doesn’t support or speak ill of what I believe can be a hard situation for me to go through. I will support and fight for what I believe in order for them to understand my point-of-view. However, I respect other people’s opinion on how they view about diversity. Take for example religion. I live in
The fact that women are less valued than men is, to be blunt, sexist. Men are supposedly shown dominance while women are shown to be less powerful or powerless. Men also have the power to choose whomever they marry and however many times they would like to marry. In Saudi Arabia, women have to wear attire called abaya in order to follow the Islamic law. They are long black dress that covers expose skin including face, hands, and feet. One incident, I went to a mall without a hijab on, soon I was halted by the religion police and told me to cover up my hair. What confused me was that an American woman passed by without a hijab, yet the religious police didn’t stop her. I understood that they saw, for the lack of better term, white people, as a non-Islamic people. However, I believed that white-colored people have a greater power or aura that surrounds them than Asians in Saudi Arabia. Not only do they look down upon Asians, especially Southeast Asia, they think us as maids (nannies, houseboys, etc.) because almost all Arab families has at least one maid and one