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Diversity is the ways in thich people differ. It really bums me out that people get judged by the way they look. The world would be a better place if people would stop judging others by their looks, religion, culture, etc. and think more about a person’s personality. We’re all people living in the same world, why can’t we just be nice and resect each other? Everyone in this world is different from each other. No two people are excatly alike.
To me the thing that matters in a person is not how they look, but how they act. I have friends taught have dark skin, but we still get along just fine. I feel two things when my friend gets picked on because the color of their skin; first, I feel mad at whoever thinks they’re better then her just because they have lighter skin thatn her; second I feel bad for her because she has to go through taht torment.
Pretend you you were a new kid at school, and you didn’t have any friends. There was this really nice kid, but when you were introduced to the kid you decided not to be the kid’s friend because the kid has dark skin. Now you’ve thrown away what could have been a great friendship. Alright, now back to reality, hopefully you’re not that prejudiced.

The moral of the story is:
Do not judge a book by its cover.

By,
Sandy


Di-ver-si-ty (di ver’ si te) n. pl. diversities a difference in variety; unlike ness. In this case, people are my subject. If a dictionary were to say about the diversity of people to me, it would be only half-truth. This only states a physical or outer appearance of someone, which truely isn’t a person at all. A person is their innner appearance.
If someone I met were a different nationality than I was, I would have to get to know them before I knew what kind of a person they are. To me, nationalities or where some one comes from isn’t the only way diversity makes a difference on how people judged others. I think someone can be judged by religion, culture, tradition, language, accent, or skin color too.
The common phrase, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me” is the most wrong theoryI’ve ever heard. Some times if you think someone is so much different than you, they end up being almost the same.
- Kelsea

I think diversity means something or someone different from myself. My school has many different people from me. There are people with different skein color, some people are mentally challenged, some can’t talk as well as others, the same thing as in my neighborhood.
I hope things don’t bother me at all because I think everyone is the same. I used to be friends with someone who was a different color, but he moved away. That didn’t matter to me. I just think that everyone should be treated the same.

-Anonymous
Diversity is differences. My school has diversity by races, like some people are Russian, Mexican, and etc. I have diversity in my neighbrhood, because a lot of people have different religion. No, these differences don’t matter to me or my friends. I am friends with a boy. Our friendship is the best!
By,
Kirstin
Diversity means unlikeness or different. My best friend has an autistic brother who is 2 years old. Even if he is autistic my best friend Kassie, her family, and I do not treat him any worse or better than anyone else.
He goes to school and does everything that a 2 year old would do! Kassie and I stick up for him. Like if an anyone made fun of him, Kassie would say, “That was not very nice to make fun of him just because he is different than you!” Could you even imagine what that would feel like? It would probably feel like a knife going right through your heart. Even if they say sorry, that feeling will never go away. So I hope that never happens to him or anyone else! That is what diversity means to me!!
-Anomonyous
Diversity means a different race, skin color, language or just different from you. My school has a couple people as far as I know of. My neighborhood has no different people, but I would I like it if there would be. That's what diversity means to me.
By, Brandon
Diversity is something about races, just because someone is a different color don’t make fun of them they are in the same world as us.
Sometimes when my dad is behind his back people talk about his different color me and my mom, and bros. It makes me feel very, very bad and it makes him feel bad too. i am a little dark, but not a whole lot and sometimes I get made fun of and it makes me feel bad just like my dad. So let’s all be nice and not make fun of other people, just because they are different.

by, Mari

Diversity is the point of difference between things or people. The diversity I experience in my life right now is our family friends Hojat and Freshman from Iran.
They eat very different food than us. We mostly east steak and Potatoes, they eat chicken and rice. They eat rice at every meal.
Hot are Islamic and we are Christian. They don’t go to church on Sundays or pray to God, but we do.
Their home is decorated differently than ours. We mostly have carpeting from wall to wall. Their tradition is to have hardwood floors with expensive rugs woven with gold thread. In Iran, people use their money to buy more rugs not to make their homes bigger like us.
Hot and Freshman have two kids, Parsa and Aria. they are boys. Even though out two families are very different me and the boys have one thing in common we all play Yu-gi-oh!
-Anonymous
Diversity means different and with diversity means judgment. They have tests on judgment somewhere. We have diversity in our city and school. It doesn’t matter because I think diversity is good. In St. Paul I had a black friend named Maxi and his color didn’t affect our friendship at all because I didn’t care about the color.

-Anomonyous
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