Diversity

Diversity to me is a co-existence of a variety of elements in the society including culture, background, occupation, race, gender, and the list can go on and on. I believe social changes have helped the world to become a more diverse planet through multicultural education which gives people the opportunity to explore and understand different cultures as opposed to ethnocentrism, and through advancement in technology which has made travel so much easier and communication so much more accessible; these have all contributed to a more diverse world in which we live today. In the mean time, despite the fact that I am an English major, I have always been fascinated by the issue of how people of different culture can co-exist and how they can understand one another better in a way that will make them more tolerant, because I myself has often found it rather difficult to start a conversation with someone from a different background, let alone finding a topic.