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Diversity is having people from different
cultures and different backgrounds and different
races just coming together and working towards
a common goal.
I think diversity is about celebrating each
other's differences and coming together and
figuring out how every one of us is special
in each of our own way.
Diversity is much more than whether you're
black or white or Hispanic or Asian.
To me it's also whether you're gay or whether
you're straight or whether you're from northern
Virginia or southern Virginia.
It's much more than skin color to me.
Diversity is just a bunch of different people
all together.
Diversity is something that all of us hold.
Whether it's our gender, whether it's our
race, our culture, our traditions, our orientation.
It's something that all of us hold.
When it comes specifically to ethnicity, I
feel like all of us are a part of that diversity
in that all of us are international.
Even if you're an American, for students coming
into JMU from other countries, we hold that
sense of diversity, so that's what diversity
is to me.
I think diversity is anything that makes you
think differently from another person.
To me, diversity is a lot more than the way
people look but definitely the way people
interpret the world around them and how open
they are to ideas.
Diversity is -- this!
Diversity is, I think it's like, different
backgrounds, what makes you you, like your
values, your morals.
It's just bringing really different people
together.
A lot of people see it more than just race,
people think like maybe where you've been,
where you've lived, or like different things
that you like to do, different things that
you're interested in.
I think it's just differences in every type
of way.
Diversity is multidimensional variance within
a given society.
Diversity is culture.
Diversity to me, I think people get hung up
too much on like ethnicity.
I think diversity is any particular story
that we come from, any story that -- any background
that anybody has, just coming together and
becoming a new community, especially here
at like JMU.
It's a bunch of different people all in one
great place.
Loving everybody else's identity as well.
Diversity is when you just have a group of
people together and they all come from different
walks of life.
To me, that's diversity.
Diversity is what makes you you, whether that
be an aspect of where you come from, your
economic background, your sexual identity,
the different things that make you stand out
from the person next to you or whoever else
is in the community, is what diversity is.
Diversity!!
Diversity is a combination of many cultures
in one setting.
Different cultures coming together.
Not necessarily race.
But also cultural experiences.
Just being together.
And appreciating each other while at the same time maintaining differences.
And growing together in an educational environment.
Short people and tall people.
Diversity. Diversity.
Diversity is about different people coming together and learning from one another.
Diversity to me means everybody coming together as
the human race and accepting everybody for
who they are and really celebrating our differences
because we are who we are
and everyone should accept who we are for who we are.
