Eth 125 Final

Eth 125 Final

Throughout my nine weeks journey I learned about the importance of diversity. The human race is diverse in so many ways: race, ethnicity, gender, religion, class, lifestyle, sexuality, the areas are endless. Merriam-Webster defines diversity as the condition of having or being composed of differing elements: the inclusion of different types of people (people of different races and cultures) in a group or organization (Merriam-Webster.Com retrieved, 2013). Our joys and pains, high and lows are what bring us together, but diversity is what makes us unique. Diversity is a very important aspect that people take for granted. In some communities like the Amish they can only dress certain ways, wear their hair certain ways, and prepare food certain ways. Diversity is the freedom to be different, to think different, and to act different. I have gained a large amount of knowledge about my African American culture over the past nine weeks and others as well. For a chapter 5 discussion question we discussed whether or not genocide had ever been practiced or condoned in the United States. During this process I learned a lot about Native Americans. I did not know or realize all the hardships they have suffered. Europeans came to the United States with diseases such as, chicken pox, measles, influenza, and sexually transmitted diseases. They infected blankets with smallpox and give them to the Delaware tribe. Native Americans were subjected to numerous and countless acts of violence. The Native American population was said to be over 12 million in 1500 and after all was said and done the estimate was barely 237,000 in 1900 (wikipedia.org). I also learned a lot about women and the suffrage that we endured regarding women’s rights and how we had to fight for the right to vote and the right to receive equal pays. Since the issue of equal pay is not still commonly discussed I did not know that such an issued still existed, but apparently it does ant laws are in place to help with...

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