Race And Your Community
...places in the country. Being someone that does not take skin color, religion or any other part of a person as a deciding factor of how that person is cultural diversity is not as apparent to me. Taking another look at my community I noticed differences between me and other members, as well as noticing things about the leaders and the way they tread individuals in my community. Over all I have to say I am happy where I am and am going to continue living my life regardless of what my neighbors look like.
My community and Race Page 3
Race influences the world we know today greatly. So race in my community also plays and important roll.
While I was growing up I never paid any attention to cultural diversity. My community was not just a white community either, but I suppose at a young age you don't look at those differences. These differences were not apparent to me, until I made a major school change. At the age of 11 I moved from a private Lutheran school to a public school. In this transition many differences in culture that I did not see were shown to me by other students. I found that there are many different opinions on things I original did not notice where there. Yet not until I started high school social studies did I realized that there are an abundance of different race, skin color, culture, religion, language, and ethnicity. Everything I did not see as different is different in many other people's eyes. I learned and became interested in the trials and tribulations of these cultures and have come to more greatly appreciate there differences. Discovering the types of differences I had found really opened my eyes to the people around me and why some of them do the things that they do in their cultures. The whole experience was like a culture shock. Don't get me wrong I knew that not everyone was the same but I had never really known why and how...
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