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Diversity And The Privilege Walk Exercise
The topics of diversity can be a challenging subject to discuss especially amongst a group that’s as diverse as this cohort. One particular activity that stood out to me was when gathered and conducted the Privilege Walk exercise. At the time, I assumed that due to my ethnicity that I would be amongst the first few people in my ethnic group to reach the other side of the room first but the exercise progressed and I noticed how not everyone I thought would be close to began to trail behind, it surprised me how each person can have different perspectives on the same question and view the world in such different ways. People from the same ethnicity varied greatly, one person would reach the end while the other barely reached halfway across the

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