Explain why cultural diversity is important in a college education.
I come from a small town. Hannibal, MO, the boyhood home of Mark
Twain, is described its claim to fame as "a sleepy town drowsing." Most surely he
has never been more accurate, for this small enchanted river town has never
awakened total equality.
It is a town full of ignorance, where nobody has ever thought twice of
sharing and spreading their sly comments and idiotic judgements to anyone and
everyone who will listen, and most people do. It is a town where fathers, mothers,
brothers, sisters, and grandparents teach their kids to "ignore those no-good
niggers," stay away from those "half-breeds" and give hell to anyone "nigger-lover"
who refuses to believe the truth. It sickens me.
Last year, we had an issue to address at our school. It later became known as
The Cowboys vs. The Blacks, and never has our school been more involved.
The
newspapers screamed of the hate, violence, and threat of gangs that were corrupting
our schools; the halls rang with the lastest gossip on the next big showdown. This
problem slapped a school full of apathetic kids into a lively bunch ready to get
involved. Involved in what? A controversy that all had opinions on, but how could
you not have an opinion? It was the talk at all of the dinner tables, bars, and stores
in town. Kids went home scared of the racial tension. Parents whined and cried of
violence in the school.
The parents whined and cried, and at the same time forgot to remember that
it was they, not the kids, who had taught the very prejudices that were "disrupting
the education process." My opinion is simple and elementary: Children are not
born to hate others, they must be...
Explain why cultural diversity is important in a college education.,"
a good essay!! I understand what you are going through I lived in a small town in the Uk that had a large Asian population I have seen it from both sides the whites and the Asian's. I m glad you have broke the mold and formed your own opinion. "from a small seed a great oak tree grows" hope fully the oaktree of change will grow quickly!!
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