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Discovering worlds other than your own is important, and necessary for one’s growth as a person. If you only experience one way of living, you have no concept of the world – the world as in the billions of people that do things a billions different ways. Diversity forces us to see the cracks in our foundation and makes us want to fix them. Without diversity, Viola Davis, an amazing actress, would not be the first black woman to win and Emmy for best lead actress in a drama. The winner would have been a white woman, like we are used to. With this example, we can really see the danger of “going along to get along”. It seems ludicrous that a black woman has never won that award before, as there are many great black female actresses. But, maybe we did not think about this before she won. I, for one, had no idea a black woman had never won an Emmy for best lead actress in a drama. This case of diversifying the people we consider good entertainers has shown a lot of people that this industry is not totally equal. This realization probably shocked people and made them re think things they had said or felt about the entertainment industry.
This feeling of shock, though, is not a bad thing. It is one of the best things, in fact. This shock first embarrasses us for thinking the way we did, then makes us realize why it wrong and turns us to face our misconceptions. This kind of shock is one of change. The only way this change can be brought on is to diversify