Wells Fargo Diversity

America is always going to face diversity. No matter how hard we try to get rid of discrimination and prejudice, it will probably never be fully gone. One thing that needs to be done is for us to teach our children how not to be prejudice. By doing this we can start to break the cycle that’s been going on for many years. Teaching our children today how to get over diversity will help them in

In most of my classes the discussion of diversity and what it means to us as a future teacher is always a hot topic. So I’ve learned that diversity is so much more than just race and gender, it is every little thing that makes us, us, whether as an individual or as a group. So after completing Diversity Scale Survey (Miville-Guzman University Scale) and reading the following questions I have come to turns that I may not be so accepting of individual

One thing that I have experienced with diversity being looked at as affecting by process and success is when I tried to choose a career path way within my high school years. The high school I attended required you to choose a career pathway that you must work at until graduation. My first choice was masonry, I would be able to learn how to build things, such as a house even. As we all know that isn’t a job you think a girl would choose to do. Well my dad thought the same which caused conflict in his and my relationship because he believed that I was a girl and girls are either nurses or teachers.

One way to face this wave of diversity is to learn to accept and value it (http://www.online.wbc.org/Docs/starting/diversity.html). What is diversity? Why does it matter? Once this is

In the Ted Talk “Color blind or color brave?” Mellody makes the case that by speaking openly about race and diversity when hiring, will help make businesses and society better. Mellody mentions that some of the most successful corporations take the issue head on and she believes this is what makes them successful; it gives the company a competitive advantage. When there is a greater diversity in a company they are able to resolve issues quickly because people from all different walks of life think differently. I agree with what Mellody says. When there is a greater diversity and it doesn't have to deal with color, people are able to achieve greater things. The individuals who don't think, act, or do the same things as you do can challenge your

It has become a daily conflict for most people in the world to experience or witness discrimination of another race, gender, identity, or appearance of someone else. What people don’t realize is that just because someone may appear or identify different, doesn’t mean they are at a lower or higher status than you. I grew up in a very diverse area. My elementary school had a program for students learning English who came from outside of the United States. There were hundreds of students from other countries at my school, which helped me build up a confidence that I should be proud to be different, because nobody at my school was the exact same. Diversity is something that every person should be proud

One way for people to become more diverse is to make themselves uncomfortable. If it makes them uncomfortable they should ask themselves why they are feeling that way. In a classroom setting a student could choose to be more open and choose to work with a group of people they normally would not. There are many ways that people can diversify their life and become more knowledgeable about other.

The more time I spend in diverse environments, the more I realize that harmonious diversity is highly difficult. More often than not, seemingly harmonious diverse environments only are that way because while people from all different backgrounds are in the same room, they naturally have filtered into groups that are like themselves, whether it be in terms of race, culture, beliefs, or other differences. However, simultaneously, I believe in the great importance of diversity. Although, like anything worthwhile, it takes work and an open attitude, it also makes you think about and enriches your world in ways that people similar to you will never be able to. Whenever there is a problem, especially problems of social justice, I believe it is of immense importance to have diversity in those trying to solve it. After all, we are all shaped by the experiences we go through, and no matter how intelligent and well-trained people are, no one person can see the world completely from any lens other than their

Black or White. Christians or Muslims. Girl, boy, gay or lesbian. Young or old. These are just some of the things that we can't forcily change. And for such kind of things that we can't change, maybe the best thing to do is to accept how diverse humanity is, and just adapt to it. How diverse we are is both a challenge and a strength in an organization - community, school, business. A challenge in the sense that we aren't alike so we don't think and act the same due to our different cultures, beliefs and others. On the other hand, it is a strength because our differences for example, can bring or give each one of us more insights on things and be able to learn something from one person to another. Our diversiveness doesn't lies on what we can perceived only. It goes deeply into one's personality, behavior and way of thinking. Diversity is not unknown to us. We interact with different kinds of people from different places everyday, whether in school or work. It is prevalent in an organization because basically, organizations are composed of people.

Diversity is often noticed for its range of options of meaning and the actually use of the word many people often miss understand the true meaning of the word itself. Race is one of the biggest ones. Race has a different impacts in different places all around, in some schools people may not care about the color of one’s skin and then others think it’s a disgrace to have people of that color around their kids. I grew up in a very small town didn’t really think about my classmates being different colored but in the bigger towns it may be a huge deal. Gender sometimes is segregated saying girls are smarter and boys are better at sports and all types of things. Socioeconomic status is what most people think of when they think of diversity. Being in the lower socioeconomic class people tend to think they are not as smart. In the higher socioeconomic class they have more resources to learn and better places to

I was raised in a very non-diverse small all white town about 2 hours from a large city in north Texas. My parents and grandparents prepared me well on how America had grown into a diverse population of culture and ethnicities, from around world. When turned 18 in the early 80’s I went to work and live in the city that opened my eyes to diversity. Overtime I developed great friendships with people that were African American, Hispanic and Asian that were neighbors and co-workers that I spent a lot of time with regularly. One black friend I had was openly gay and shared insight to us about him and his partner’s life. This opened my eyes and thinking of how little I truly know about others cultural environments.

Our reader for this class does a great job in describing the benefits of diversity management and I do agree with all of it. Diversity is the way for the future, in business, community, education, and for national or federal social events. But our reader also describes the problems that are common and current within the business environment upon adapting, or should I say, implementing this agenda. For many people, the word “diversity” has taken on a different meaning, it has become a descriptive for “those others that are not white males.”

We live in a country where diversity is all around us. We choose if we accept diversity in our lives. Some people embrace a diverse life while others want to only associate with people who are like themselves. Whether people lead a diverse life is not the problem, the real issue is how we treat those that are different from ourselves.

I am from the San Francisco Bay Area, where diversity is almost everywhere. From places like Oakland, where there are numerous backgrounds, to nearby Brentwood, where there is not much to discover. My personal experiences with diversity stem from my home life. My ethnic background has an array of cultures that all wrap up into my own individual DNA code. I am mixed with African American, Native American, European and Filipino. Growing up, family gatherings were nothing but diverse. There was a time when I found it difficult to come to terms with racial identity, and even more ego damaging racial shame.

For the longest time, I used to despise the word “diversity” or the idea of being “diverse”. Since nearly the majority of my life, being “diverse” signified that a part of me did not belong or was misinterpreted to fit within the popular views of diversity. It all started when I had the feelings of embarrassment towards my ethnicity at the end of my elementary school years. The looks and reactions I got from the other students after school when my mother and I would speak in Spanish with one another while walking home, taught me that it was not right. The message was clear from that experience: I did not belong in my school, or the uniformed community in Meridian, Idaho. My mother does not have the ability to speak very good English, so I always had to communicate with her in Spanish, even till this day. However, I was too attached with the idea of fitting in. I not only started to avoid my mother by walking the opposite direction back home after school, but I also started to avoid speaking Spanish with her at all costs. I even went into deep measures and lied to others about the fact that I did not have the ability to speak Spanish, or that I’m Hispanic. Before I knew it, I was transformed into someone else, someone I could no longer recognize anymore. I was trying so hard fitting in that I forgot how to appreciate myself, to know who I truly was rather than putting on a mask to