Diversity In A College Education

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When I think of the word “diversity” I think of variety or an assortment of many different things. Diversity adds a lot of value to a college education for many reasons. For example, diversity is shown in school in many ways like the different kinds of classes you can take such as a language class, science, math or English, etc., teachers also have many different variety’s like the teacher you choose, the way that they teach, the subject, also the many different types of clubs show how the club itself and the schools diversity. All these things add value to a college education because it shows the many different options that a person has, it also shows how each one is different and that you can expand yourself socially and your education.…show more content…
Although, in the beginning of Megan McArdle’s essay “Is College a Lousy Investment?” it states, “Many students feel compelled to earn a college degree out of fear that they will be unemployable if they do not.” (444) Many of us grow up with our parents or older people in our lives that we look up to, that if we don’t go to college after we graduate then we would be unemployable, not have a good job, or flipping burgers. McArdle also states “Why are we spending so much money on college? … We all seem to agree that a college education is wonderful, and yet strangely we worry when we see families investing so much in the supposedly essential good.”(445) The amount of money that is spent to go to college puts families in debt, after going to college for an amount of years and getting an education it can’t be repossessed. In Charles Murray’s essay, “What’s Wrong With Vocational School?” he states “ College is appropriate for a small minority of young adults”(443) which means that college isn’t for everyone and that if you aren’t ready for college you shouldn’t jump right into it and do…show more content…
If we open our minds and understand others more it can make us see a different view of them. Stereotypes and racial discrimination is something we deal with every day. Everyday people are being stopped due to race, in “Why Is The NYPD after Me?” By Nicholas Peart, he says, “last year, the NYPD recorded more than 600,000 stops; 84 percent of those stopped were blacks or Latinos. Police are far more likely to use force when stopping blacks or Latinos than whites.” (478) it’s shocking to know that most of the stops were based off of skin color and race and that another race is stopped less because of skin color. In “Why Latinas Aren’t Allowed to Get Angry” by Sara Ines Calderon, she states “… impossible for a Latina to express anger in our society. If she does, her anger is not an emotional problem, but rather a genetic one.” (462) Latinas are stereotyped for their angry and can’t get angry and in society if they do get angry it would be an emotional problem, it’d be genetic. Stereotypes and racial discrimination affects a lot of people in the world today. In “Leaving Race Behind” by Amitai Etzioni, the authors idea for a vision of the future, he states, “Let us begin with a fairly modest request of the powers that be: Give us a chance…. Allow us to describe ourselves simply as Americans.” (473) Etzioni vision of the future can start by one simply thing and that would
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