Blog assignment 4

Diversity appreciation is important in the 21^st century because one has to understand the opinions and beliefs of others.  Diversity strengthens society and gives people room to expand their thoughts, traditions, and beliefs.  Staten Island suffered from the pain they had. Therefore, they decided to bring people together. They worked with the Mediation Center and educated people on how to communicate and resolve conflicts without using violence.

In the beginning they brought together many Islanders with different backgrounds for a ‘pot-luck’ dinner. They had different people, such as political leaders, religious leaders and more who shared their feelings with interested Islanders. Later, they planned to make activities that actually are for children. They read out loud of children’s book, made a puppet show which represented one culture and etc. Then they created the Mosaic Coalition, which was a ‘’education through interaction’’. This helped to educate each other. In order to achieve this goal, they needed volunteers. Therefore, they decided to sent e-mails to college faculty and staff, college students, and community schools. By doing this they finally created  Celebrate Diversity. Many project came up, such as cooking project, documentary project, and so on.

Diversity appreciation is important at Westminster College because we have so many different cultures. As we realized in class, people are not collaborating with each other so well. Diversity appreciation would be the best solution for Westminster College. People with different culture, beliefs, and opinions could meet with each other and share their knowledge.  They could play games, which has to do with culture. They could meet once a months and talk about things that happened. This would make it easier for everyone to live freely and happy. A better relationship would have been created.