The Importance Of Diversity At SCSU
For our outrageous act project, we decided to promote diversity at SCSU. You may be asking yourself, “What exactly is diversity?”. Diversity is defined as “the inclusion of individuals representing more than one national origin, color, religion, socioeconomic stratum, sexual orientation, etc” (Dictionary.com, 2016). Diversity as a virtue in a nation originated from the rise of modern democracies in the 1790s; where it kept one faction from gaining all power. But this was not quite the modern sense, as ethnicity, gender,sexual identity, etc. were not the qualities in mind during that time period.
Diversity works by promoting hard work and creativity and also by encouraging the consideration of alternatives even before any interpersonal interaction …show more content…
It took about seven to ten minutes to get our first participant and then it felt like they just kept coming. We also were challenged by an individual who walked up to our booth and started to ask us things that were not even related to the topic we were promoting. Not only were the comments he made irrelevant to what we were encouraging, but they were also offensive and harmful to others. It was inappropriate of him to come forward and speak to us, and it was one of those situations where you just wondered why they felt the need to come to our booth and talk down on our activism. That person did not ruin our outcome because we still had many people participate in the project and it was a wonderful feeling to see students and faculty come together to promote diversity, which is sometimes seen as a negative …show more content…
By being involved with diverse communities, everyone can learn tolerance, patience, problem solving skills, and can grow as a community. We also learned that physical differences were not what people were most excited about. Even though St. Cloud State is a physically diverse campus, it is also an internally diverse campus. Although we all like to point out physical differences between ourselves, we learned that it was more important to celebrate not only these physical differences, but our different emotional traits as
Diversity works by promoting hard work and creativity and also by encouraging the consideration of alternatives even before any interpersonal interaction …show more content…
It took about seven to ten minutes to get our first participant and then it felt like they just kept coming. We also were challenged by an individual who walked up to our booth and started to ask us things that were not even related to the topic we were promoting. Not only were the comments he made irrelevant to what we were encouraging, but they were also offensive and harmful to others. It was inappropriate of him to come forward and speak to us, and it was one of those situations where you just wondered why they felt the need to come to our booth and talk down on our activism. That person did not ruin our outcome because we still had many people participate in the project and it was a wonderful feeling to see students and faculty come together to promote diversity, which is sometimes seen as a negative …show more content…
By being involved with diverse communities, everyone can learn tolerance, patience, problem solving skills, and can grow as a community. We also learned that physical differences were not what people were most excited about. Even though St. Cloud State is a physically diverse campus, it is also an internally diverse campus. Although we all like to point out physical differences between ourselves, we learned that it was more important to celebrate not only these physical differences, but our different emotional traits as