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Examples Of Diversity In The United States

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There are several examples of diversity in the United States. In our country, we have religious diversity, where people can practice their religion however they want, on the other hand, we have racial diversity where we have people of many different races living together as one. We also have ethnic diversity where people from many different ethnic backgrounds living together including immigrants who came from Europe, Africa, and Asia in 1800s through 2000s and continue to come to our country. In ethnic diversity, we have various races and within these races, we have people from many different ethnicities. For example, there are “black” people who are from the Dominican Republic and there are “black” people who have recently come from Africa. These …show more content…

As I walked in the room on the first day in my first year, I saw two different groups, girls on one side and boys on the other. I moved forward towards the group of girls to introduced myself. As I walked closer, I heard they were all talking in the same language and everybody knew how to communicate in Arabic. As I started to introduce myself, they seemed to be very friendly at first, so I pulled out a chair and sat down with all of them. One girl started asking me about what my major is, and where I am from, how do I like in here on campus, etc. I continued to answer the questions they were asking. I asked them same questions and found out that most of them are from Saudi Arabia and others are Lebanese, some from here however they all knew how to communicate in Arabic. They were mostly sophomores and juniors, and some of them knew each other since middle school. I also told them about my ethnic background and they seemed to appreciate it in the moment. After a while, they continued what they were discussing before, and I could feel that they were more comfortable talking in their native language. There were some words they were using in English but mostly Arabic. I

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