Issue Date: 5/11/09
We must embrace diversity
No room for those that are not the same, what a shame!
People tend to group together and avoid those that are not in their group or those that do not share their interests. This hurts society on many levels.
This shows the need for diversity and the great importance of students at Palomar, along with everyone else, to make sure that they encourage diversity everyday.
Diversity is "fact or quality, of being diverse; difference. A point of respect in which things differ." Respect for individuals causes people to stop and listen when someone else is talking or sharing. Those moments lead to understanding and acceptance, or at least let people "agree to disagree." Either outcome is a learning experience.
According to the American Psychological Association's Web site, a psychological study was done in 1950 on 30 heterosexual males and 30 homosexual males, who were tested without reference to sexual orientation. It evaluated that two-thirds of both the heterosexual and homosexual males were among the three highest levels of adjustment. This caused the A.P.A. to state that homosexuality "implies no impairment in judgment, reliability or general social and vocational capabilities."
This study was a learning experience showing how wrong the long-held assumption was that homosexuals were mentally unhealthy and maladjusted. This knowledge was only gained because those administering the study learned about those individual men.
Life is the ultimate learning experience, from birth to death, from learning to walk to learning how to live on social security. The quality of that life can be measured by many things: kids, money or knowledge. Knowledge is defined as, "the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association." How is an individual going to become more knowledgeable if they limit their experiences or associations?
They don't, and the individual - and society - lose out.
According to the Pew Research Center in the 2007-08 school year enrollment of a city school by typical black or Hispanic students was in a ratio of 20 percent white to 80 percent minority, with the minority students being of the same ethnicity.
People tend to group together and avoid those that are not in their group or those that do not share their interests. This hurts society on many levels.
This shows the need for diversity and the great importance of students at Palomar, along with everyone else, to make sure that they encourage diversity everyday.
Diversity is "fact or quality, of being diverse; difference. A point of respect in which things differ." Respect for individuals causes people to stop and listen when someone else is talking or sharing. Those moments lead to understanding and acceptance, or at least let people "agree to disagree." Either outcome is a learning experience.
According to the American Psychological Association's Web site, a psychological study was done in 1950 on 30 heterosexual males and 30 homosexual males, who were tested without reference to sexual orientation. It evaluated that two-thirds of both the heterosexual and homosexual males were among the three highest levels of adjustment. This caused the A.P.A. to state that homosexuality "implies no impairment in judgment, reliability or general social and vocational capabilities."
This study was a learning experience showing how wrong the long-held assumption was that homosexuals were mentally unhealthy and maladjusted. This knowledge was only gained because those administering the study learned about those individual men.
Life is the ultimate learning experience, from birth to death, from learning to walk to learning how to live on social security. The quality of that life can be measured by many things: kids, money or knowledge. Knowledge is defined as, "the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association." How is an individual going to become more knowledgeable if they limit their experiences or associations?
They don't, and the individual - and society - lose out.
According to the Pew Research Center in the 2007-08 school year enrollment of a city school by typical black or Hispanic students was in a ratio of 20 percent white to 80 percent minority, with the minority students being of the same ethnicity.
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