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Task 6 – Challenges to Diversity
After working through the materials in Lesson 6, review your notes and consider how the concepts from those sources might help provide context for your own experiences and/or observations of discrimination.
Explore this site, More Than Meets the Eye. The site archives experiences of racism around the world. Read a few of the essays and use them as examples for your own essay below. No need to cite these, but if you do be sure to do so properly in APA format.
Write a 2-3 page (double-spaced) essay on your experience of discrimination. Choose a specific incident or incidents when you felt discriminated against, either because of racial prejudice or because of prejudice based on another characteristic (religion, national origin, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic situation). Alternatively, choose an incident or incidents when you observed discrimination against another person and/or group. Draw from the resources provided in Lesson 6 to support your claims. Structure your paper using the below guideline:
- INTRODUCTION (1 paragraph): Include a thesis statement where you explain the overall point you are making about how you have experienced or observed discrimination and what that tells us about challenges to diversity.
- BODY (3 paragraphs): Include a paragraph describing the incident or incidents in detail, a paragraph discussing your response and the incident’s effect on you, and a paragraph where you use 1-2 sources from Lesson 6 to provide context for the incident and explain what it tells us about challenges to diversity. Place the paragraphs in an order that makes logical sense.
- CONCLUSION(1 paragraph): Restate your thesis. Explain why discussing discrimination and/or racism helps us better understand diversity and how to function in a diverse world.
Task 6 – Challenges to Diversity Answer
America prides itself for achieving a milestone when it passed the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as part of the goal to end discrimination and promote diversity in this country. Besides, America is a free country and it is but pleasing to live up this label by eradicating the practice of discrimination that goes against the American values of freedom. Unfortunately, the pursuit of diversity and the eradication of discrimination continuous to be a challenge despite the clear definitions underscored in the law.