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Personal Narrative: How My Cultural Diversity Class

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I can’t believe how my Cultural Diversity class has enlightened me. I now have a more detailed explanation of how immigrants arrived, where they arrived and why. I never gave a second thought to all of it before much less where our society is heading. It seems like there is a contest to see who can conform to a more unified culture first or moreover who can destroy it first. Would be nice if we could put all our differences aside and move on to a more peaceful and productive humanity. October 1, 2017, I saw this morning that people lost their lives at a concert in Las Vegas. What I also saw despite the devastating deaths and injured people was the humanity behind it. I saw people helping people! It didn’t matter what age, gender,

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