Diversity In America

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The beauty of living in such a diverse nation lies in its diversity. The United States truly is a melting pot: so many ethnicities, cultures, religions, ideas, skills, and experiences blending together. When our differences are united for a purpose it leads to wonderful results: we learn to understand each other, we learn from each other, we grow with each other, and we value our differences. Although it’s amazing how every individual’s thoughts are different from another, it’s troubling when someone’s experience varies so much from yours that it causes a problem. This conflict is inevitable when growing up; essentially, an unavoidable consequence of living in a nation with such diversity. Even on a much smaller scale, such as my community…show more content…
All my hard work would go down the drain! Would it be numerically possible to get an A in the class? How is it fair that I got the least desirable outcome from this situation? All these questions surfaced. My thoughts were automatically negative. I had finally reached my academic goal and now I had to take a huge test with someone who didn’t even care enough about the class to know her exact grade! I judged her every movement and speculated everything she did. She asked me for a piece of paper, I thought, “What kind of person doesn’t come to class prepared?” When she asked me to repeat something the professor said, I asked myself, “Why doesn’t she pay attention?” Her every move was exaggerated in my thoughts, I was created an image of her without knowing her at all. Her name was Laura, she had a boyfriend, and she had just received the news that she was pregnant. I also learned that while I had plenty of time to focus on school, she juggled appointments, job hunting, decision making, and academics. While I had plenty of resources provided for me, she didn’t. She relied on financial aid to pay for her classes and didn’t have anyone to help her with the classwork. I had confidence; she had grown accustomed to receiving low grades, fostering a self-fulfilling prophecy of
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