The Importance Of Diversity

So when someone talks about diversity it has to mean so much more than one’s ancestry. Diversity to me means people from every culture, ethnicity, religion, gender, and region working and living together. Growing up just outside Chicago the people I have experienced this first hand. I have learned through dance and life that people come in all kinds of different shapes and sizes but it is their attitudes and abilities that set them apart. I see them as my neighbors, friends, classmates, and part of my community. How we embrace those differences define us more than anything else. I contribute to diversity every day with the way I embrace the differences in others and myself. Taking dance classes in Chicago I have had the opportunity to work with diverse people from across the world. It has made me appreciate other cultural values and look at the world through a bigger lens. Being diverse does not always come from race or culture. Diversity has many forms which it accumulates under. To me, each person is a story that cannot be replicated. Some are filled with struggles and oppression while others with opportunity but that does not take away the importance of each story. Every person and their lives shape the world we live in and give us an appreciation of life. Life in its many colors and ways of living. One must appreciate diversity or else life would be plain and simple. Our friends, our family, and the people around us come from across the world and we cannot